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Japan Home Video
Japan Home Video Co. Ltd. (ジャパンホームビデオ株式会社, JapanHōmuBideo Kabushikigaisha) (JHV) is a Japanese home video company which produces and distributes film and video products and is also involved in TV programming and game software. It uses the label Alice Japan (アリスJAPAN) for its adult video production.
JHV was established in May 1984 to take advantage of the explosion of videocassette recorders (VCRs) in Japan at that time. Following the introduction of commercial VCR Beta recorders in 1975 (and the VHS format in 1976), VCR production in Japan went from one million units in 1978 to 44 million by 1985 fueled largely by the number of movies (including pornography) available on VHS. By November 1984, the company had expanded enough to move to new headquarters in the fashionable Harajuku district of Tokyo.
The company originally used the Penguin (ぺんぎん) label for its videos but in April 1986, JHV founded Alice Japan (アリスJAPAN) as a label for their adult videos (AV). The company subsequently expanded into softcore movies, anime productions, computer games and, in 1996, the satellite broadcasting business. In February 2000, JHV acquired a building in the Jinbocho area of Tokyo and transferred its headquarters there. A further move brought the Production Center to their own building in Tokyo's Nakano City in March 2005 which also became the company headquarters in April 2007.
For the 2007 fiscal year, the corporation had sales of 2.25 billion yen (about $22.5 million) and a capital of 27 million yen (about $227,000). The company employed 34 people and had its headquarters in the JHV Building (JHV中野ビル) in Nakano, Tokyo.
The company is involved in the production and distribution of film, video products, music and TV programs.
JHV has produced and/or distributed a number of theatrical movies, including several in the science fiction or horror genre and often with erotic overtones. Some notable film productions include the 1989 cult horror movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and the Yakuza zombie flic Junk: Shiryô-gari from 2000. Also in the horror genre were Evil Dead Trap or Shiryo no wana directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and featuring AV actress Hitomi Kobayashi which was released in 1988 and the sequel Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki (死霊の罠2ヒデキ) from 1992. Evil Dead Trap was later released by JHV on DVD.
JHV also produced the first three live-action videos of the manga based superheroine series Kekko Kamen, the 1991 Kekko Kamen, Kekko Kamen 2 from 1992, and Kekko Kamen 3, released in 1993.
More recent productions were the 2004 drama The Hunter and the Hunted (油断大敵, Yudan taiteki) which won awards at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best New Director and the 2004 comedy eiko (エイコ).
Japan Home Video
Japan Home Video Co. Ltd. (ジャパンホームビデオ株式会社, JapanHōmuBideo Kabushikigaisha) (JHV) is a Japanese home video company which produces and distributes film and video products and is also involved in TV programming and game software. It uses the label Alice Japan (アリスJAPAN) for its adult video production.
JHV was established in May 1984 to take advantage of the explosion of videocassette recorders (VCRs) in Japan at that time. Following the introduction of commercial VCR Beta recorders in 1975 (and the VHS format in 1976), VCR production in Japan went from one million units in 1978 to 44 million by 1985 fueled largely by the number of movies (including pornography) available on VHS. By November 1984, the company had expanded enough to move to new headquarters in the fashionable Harajuku district of Tokyo.
The company originally used the Penguin (ぺんぎん) label for its videos but in April 1986, JHV founded Alice Japan (アリスJAPAN) as a label for their adult videos (AV). The company subsequently expanded into softcore movies, anime productions, computer games and, in 1996, the satellite broadcasting business. In February 2000, JHV acquired a building in the Jinbocho area of Tokyo and transferred its headquarters there. A further move brought the Production Center to their own building in Tokyo's Nakano City in March 2005 which also became the company headquarters in April 2007.
For the 2007 fiscal year, the corporation had sales of 2.25 billion yen (about $22.5 million) and a capital of 27 million yen (about $227,000). The company employed 34 people and had its headquarters in the JHV Building (JHV中野ビル) in Nakano, Tokyo.
The company is involved in the production and distribution of film, video products, music and TV programs.
JHV has produced and/or distributed a number of theatrical movies, including several in the science fiction or horror genre and often with erotic overtones. Some notable film productions include the 1989 cult horror movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and the Yakuza zombie flic Junk: Shiryô-gari from 2000. Also in the horror genre were Evil Dead Trap or Shiryo no wana directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and featuring AV actress Hitomi Kobayashi which was released in 1988 and the sequel Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki (死霊の罠2ヒデキ) from 1992. Evil Dead Trap was later released by JHV on DVD.
JHV also produced the first three live-action videos of the manga based superheroine series Kekko Kamen, the 1991 Kekko Kamen, Kekko Kamen 2 from 1992, and Kekko Kamen 3, released in 1993.
More recent productions were the 2004 drama The Hunter and the Hunted (油断大敵, Yudan taiteki) which won awards at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best New Director and the 2004 comedy eiko (エイコ).