The cinema and kabuki studio’s Shochiku Ventures subsidiary will target virtual reality and entertainment digitalisation technology developers while its sister programme, Shochiku Accelerator, is accepting submissions until August 10.

Japan-based film and kabuki production group Shochiku is set to launch a corporate venture capital unit called Shochiku Ventures tomorrow to build metaverse and digitalisation offerings.

Shochiku Ventures

Founded in 1895, Shochiku is one of the oldest film studios in Japan. The company is known for producing anime and indie films, in addition to running Kabuki-za, a kabuki performance theatre in Tokyo. Kabuki is a classical form of…

Subscribe to go deeper

GCV subscribers get access to all our proprietary data and deep-dive articles, as well as the global directory of CVC investors.



Not sure if you have a subscription?
Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.
email
Linked in