IMAGICA GROUP

IMAGICA GROUP Inc. Type Holding company Status Active Led by Fumio Nagase, Nobuo Fuse Founded April 1, 2002 Head- quarters 1-3-2 Uchisaiwai, Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan 100-0011 Also known as IMAGICA Inc. (2002-2006) IMAGICA Holdings Inc. (2006) IMAGICA ROBOT Holdings Inc. (2006-2018) Subsidiary companies IMAGICA Lab. (est. 1935) OLM (est. 1990) OLM Digital (est. 1997) ROBOT (est. 1986) etc. Website https://www.imagicagroup.co.jp/

This page is for the IMAGICA GROUP and most of its relevant subsidiaries. "Far East Laboratory", "IMAGICA", "IMAGICA Lab.", and "OLM" all redirect here.

IMAGICA GROUP Inc. (株式会社IMAGICA GROUP,   Kabushiki Gaisha Imajika Gurūpu) is a Japanese conglomerate headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, which was established in its current incarnation in 2002.

The group comprises numerous companies, several of which have been involved in tokusatsu productions spanning back as far as the 1950s. Chief among these is the post-production company IMAGICA Lab. Inc. (株式会社IMAGICA Lab.,   Kabushiki Gaisha Imajika Rabo) which was founded in 1932 and has been known under various names. It served as the processing facility for a number of tokusatsu films between the 1950s and '80s as Far East Laboratory (株式会社東洋現像所,   Kabushiki Gaisha Tōyō Genzōsho). In 1986, its name was changed to simply IMAGICA Inc. (株式会社IMAGICA,   Kabushiki Gaisha Imajika), with this version of the company providing post-production on the 1989 film Gunhed and three 1990s entries in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra Series.

Other subsidiaries of the IMAGICA GROUP include the production company OLM, Inc. (株式会社オー・エル・エム,   Kabushiki Gaisha Ō Eru Emu), which produced the 2021 film The Great Yokai War: Guardians; its own subsidiary OLM Digital, Inc. (株式会社オー・エル・エム・デジタル,   Kabushiki Gaisha Ō Eru Emu Dejitaru), which created CGI for 2005's The Great Yokai War; and ROBOT COMMUNICATIONS INC., which produced yokaipedia (2022) and Godzilla Minus One (2023), the latter alongside TOHO Studios.

Selected filmography

Post-production

Far East Laboratory

• Rodan (1956)
• The Mysterians (1957)
• The H-Man (1958)
• The Three Treasures (1959)
• Battle in Outer Space (1959)
• The Secret of the Telegian (1960)
• The Ogre of Oeyama (1960)
• Mothra (1961)
• The Last War (1961)
• Daimajin (1966)
• Return of Daimajin (1966)
• Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
• Gappa (1967)
• Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)
• Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)
• Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)
• Submersion of Japan (1973)
• Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984)

IMAGICA Inc.

• Gunhed (1989)
• Ultraman Tiga (TV 1996-1997)
• Ultraman Dyna (TV 1997-1998)
• Ultraman Gaia (TV 1998-1999)

OLM Digital, Inc.

• The Great Yokai War (2005)

Miscellaneous

• Gamera the Guardian of the Universe (1995) - Associate producer [IMAGICA Inc.]
• Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007) - Financier [IMAGICA Holdings]
• The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021) - Financier [OLM, Inc.] / producer [OLM, Inc.]

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