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Iyuno Japan (formerly known as Iyuno-SDI Group, Japan, Iyuno Media Group Japan, PANDASTUDIO.TV, Tokyo TV Center) is a Japanese recording studio located in Tokyo and is part of Iyuno.

History[]

Tokyo TV Center[]

Tokyo TV Center was opened on July 1, 1953 using the facilities of the Central Club, which was an exchange facility for the Occupation Forces, and in the same building was the Suiko-en, which consisted of a ryotei banquet hall and wedding hall, and was therefore familiar to the elderly as Suiko-en.[1][2]

The studio, which was formerly a dance hall, was equipped with air-conditioning, which was rare at the time, one recording studio and three shooting studios with filming equipment, recording machines, optical recording machines and automatic developing machines, and screen processing equipment was introduced on the advice of director Eiji Tsuburaya. The studio has been associated with many independent productions, including films by Susumu Hani and ATG.

From 1956 to 1973, Nippon Television established the Nippon Television Hamamachi Studio in the Tokyo Television Center, where programmes such as Dial 110 were broadcast live. It also dubbed the Japanese language version of NTV's popular programme at the time, Disneyland.

A fire in the early hours of February 1, 1985 destroyed part of the facilities, however, the building was reopened in 1986 with the renovation of the studio (1-5 floors) and office (6-14 floors) complex.

The facilities include six recording studios, three video editing studios, digital optical recording and development facilities, and two film studios operated by the affiliated company Hamacho Studios. 407 Studios, the film recording studio, was the first Lucasfilm THX-certified film recording studio in Japan.

Because of its long history as a post-production company, the company owned a lot of valuable film and television-related equipment from the immediate post-war period to the present. However, most of this equipment was released when the business was transferred.

PANDASTUDIO.TV[]

PANDASTUDIO.TV was established on February 22, 2016, as a joint venture between the group company Panda Studio (a rental studio dedicated to chroma key) and Full Bridge Inc, a printing company in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture.

As of June 1, 2016, the operations of Tokyo TV Center and Hamacho Studio were transferred to PANDASTUDIO.TV. The operations are now managed by PANDASTUDIO.TV's Tokyo TV Center Division and Hamacho Studio Division (with many of the projects from both divisions being credited under the parent company's name).

The studio building was owned by Shinagawa Real Estate, the building management arm of the founding family, but was sold to Kajima Corporation in April 2017. The building name was then changed to Nihonbashi Hamacho K Building.

Shinagawa Real Estate was subsequently liquidated and dissolved in February 2018, and the founding family has now completely withdrawn from the business.

Iyuno[]

Iyuno Media Group Japan was the Japanese subsidiary of Iyuno Media Group, established in March 2016.[3]

On October 1, 2018, PANDASTUDIO.TV sold its Tokyo TV Center division to Iyuno Media Group, with the current Iyuno Studios inheriting all the projects and businesses of the now defunct Tokyo TV Center.

On April 1, 2021, SDI Media was acquired by Iyuno Media Group, which removed SDI Media Group's involvement with IMAGICA SDI Studio, a studio founded in February 2020 and owned by a joint venture between the company and Imagica Entertainment Media Services (which owned SDI Media before it was sold to Iyuno). At the same time, Iyuno renamed its Japanese subsidiary to Iyuno-SDI Group, Japan.[4]

Since October 26, 2022, the studio, just as the other global studios of the group, was renamed to Iyuno Japan.[5]

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See also: Category:Iyuno Japan

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