Type Subsidiary Area served Worldwide Website Sushi-Typhoon.com Headquarters Tokyo, Japan Key person Yoshinori Chiba | Industry Film Products Motion pictures Parent organization Nikkatsu Founded 2010 | |
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Key people Yoshinori Chiba
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Sushi Typhoon is a Japanese genre film production company founded in 2010 and currently owned by media conglomerate Nikkatsu Corporation, Japan's oldest existing film studio.
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History
Sushi Typhoon was founded in 2010 as a subsidiary of Nikkatsu, with the intent to create low-budget horror, science fiction, and fantasy films aimed at an international audience. Zeiram producer Yoshinori Chiba is credited as Sushi Typhoon's creator and oversees the company's full production schedule. Since its inception, the company has produced seven feature films. The label was put on indefinite hiatus in early 2012, and has produced no new films since.
Staff
The core Sushi Typhoon staff consists of producer Chiba; directors Takashi Miike (noted in the company's production trailer as its "head chef"), Yoshihiro Nishimura, Sion Sono, Noboru Iguchi, Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi, and Seiji Chiba; action director Yuji Shimomura; visual effects supervisor Tsuyoshi Kazuno; and art director Yoshiki Takahashi. Former New York Asian Film Festival co-director Marc Walkow headed Sushi Typhoon's American division and international festival bookings.
Films
As of 2011, Sushi Typhoon has produced the following feature films: