Shinchosha
Japanese publishing company
Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd. (株式会社新潮社, Kabushiki-gaisha Shinchōsha) is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award, a yearly award begun in 1989.
Books
Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Uten Enten (1990), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997), After the quake (2000), 1Q84 (2009–2010), The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023)
Alex Kerr: Lost Japan (1993)
Book series
Magazines
Weekly
Weekly Shinchō (週刊新潮) – since 1956
Weekly Comic Bunch (週刊コミックバンチ) – manga, discontinued in 2010
Focus – suspended
Monthly
Shinchō (新潮) – Literary magazine since 1904
"Monthly" Series (「月刊」シリーズ)
Nami (波)
nicola
Shinchō 45 (新潮45) (suspended)
Geijutsu Shinchō (芸術新潮)
Shōsetsu Shinchō (小説新潮)
Tabi (旅)
ENGINE – Automobile magazine, since 2000
Foresight – Japanese edition discontinued in 2010
Monthly Comic Bunch (月刊コミックバンチ) - manga, since 2011
Web magazine
Foresight – Japanese edition since 2010
Daily Shinchō – comprehensive news site basically excerpting from Shukan Shincho since 2015
Seasonal
Kangaeru Hito (考える人)
Grave of the Fireflies
In 1967, Shinchosha published a short story Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka. 21 years later, Grave of the Fireflies was turned into a film by director Isao Takahata, animated by Studio Ghibli and co-distributed by Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and Toho. In turn, Shinchosha produced that film as Shinchosha 1988. The film was released in Japanese theaters on April 16, 1988. It was then licensed and released in North America as a subtitled VHS by Central Park Media on June 2, 1993, and later a 2-disc DVD by the same company in the same region, with the 1st disc featuring an English dub produced by Skypilot Entertainment and the original Japanese with English subtitles. The 2nd disc contained a retrospective on the author of the original book, an interview with the director, and an interview with critic Roger Ebert, who had expressed his admiration for the film on several occasions and ranked the film as one of the greatest of all time. Following the April 27, 2009, bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films acquired the North American rights and re-released it on DVD on July 7, 2009, followed by former CPM titles such as MD Geist, Now and Then, Here and There and The World of Narue.
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