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GROUP DIVISIONS
Commercial Planning/Production
A powerful and comprehensive production team delivering high-quality output through a coordinated process.
We create a wide range of advertising videos, including TV commercials, web videos, music videos, social media advertisements, digital signage, and branding videos. Our highly crafted producer team oversees the entire process from planning, directing, filming, and editing at a one-stop shop within our group of companies. That is how we continuously deliver productions of the highest level. Our philosophy works, as evidenced by the numerous awards we have received both at home and abroad.
Facing new challenges in utilizing the latest digital technologies and collaborating across industries, our mission is to become an even more powerful and comprehensive production team. The value we aim to bring to the economy and society, as well as people’s daily lives, positions us as an essential and reliable partner to all our clients.
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TFC Group
Promotion Planning/Production
A group of professionals supporting sales promotion in both the traditional and digital spaces.
We provide solutions to our clients’ promotional challenges every step of the way from planning and producing to management and implementation. We support our clients’ sales promotion activities utilizing visual, digital, graphic, merchandise, campaigns and various other approaches.
Also, we are actively working on business development in new areas, such as social media promotions centered on digital video and large-scale B2C exhibitions with the experience-based content using MR/AR. In the realm of digital marketing, we constantly push ourselves to exceed the cutting-edge.
Sales promotion division’s introduction and portfolio site
Creative Agency
Contributing to the prosperity of society through creation of innovative ideas
We act as a creative agency that not only handles planning and development of marketing plans, but also implements and conducts campaigns across all communication areas, such as IMC campaigns that organically incorporate advertising, promotions and digital measures.
We see creativity as the “power to create art”, and aim to generate new values. Rather than relying on past data, we create something new from scratch, which will help our clients succeed in their businesses.
TFC Group
Localization
Feature Films, Television Series, Animations and Games
Feature Films, Television Series, Animations and Games With origins in dubbing / subtitling, today the premiere destination for multimedia localization in Japan.
For over 60 years since its founding, TFC has stood proudly as a front-runner of the dubbing / subtitling industry. Across wide genres from dramas and animations to games in recent years, our work spans theatrical movies and videos to broadcast television and streaming. Also, without limiting Japanese, we offer multilingual services (translation / voice-over recording) of all types of content and engage in production of accessible audio and subtitles. Holding the leading market share in the industry, an entire division of highly skilled translators and creative talent is devoted to overseeing the localization process. Utilizing our extensive know-how which has been accumulated over the decades, we swiftly deliver work of the highest quality to clients domestically and internationally.
Dubbing & subtitling business division’s introduction and portfolio site
Trusted Partner Network
We have been engaged in security assessment process conducted by TPN (Trusted Partner Network) and are making every effort to enforce protection of any content entrusted to us by strengthening physical and technical security measures within our facilities.
NETFLIX
POST PARTNER PROGRAM
We have received a certification of Netflix Post Partner Program (NP3) from Netflix as one of Netflix’s partners for Japanese dubbing and Japanese Audio Description.
Film and Television Production
Making a wide range of creativity-filled content that resonates and communicates.
<Production of Theatrical Feature Films and Drama Series>
Making the most use of the resources that TFC group has, we develop and produce feature films and drama series. Having the privilege of completing all aspects of production in-house, including pre-production, direction, filming, VFX/CGI and editing, we are able to deliver best quality works that will meet our clients’ needs, from high-end quality to low-budget productions.
<Development and Production of TV Programming and Video Content>
Focusing on terrestrial networks and BS television as well as websites via internet, we develop and produce TV programs and video content.
In particular, a lot of the documentary programs focusing on the people produced by us have been broadcast on NHK and other terrestrial networks, and we have gained a high reputation as well as trust from not only our client companies, but those featured in such programs. In addition, our “documentary branding videos” which make use of our know-how are accepted as effective tools of video content which can contribute to solving our clients’ problems.
Digital Production
Genre-defying creative production with a focus on VFX/CGI
As a creative production company that specializes in VFX/CGI, we offer post-production services such as video editing, audio editing, color grading, visual composition and generation of subtitles. We also develop newly emerging technologies that transcend the boundaries of existing media such as OOH (out-of-home advertising), dome projection and media art as well as VR and AR.
With our strength based on technical expertise, we have engaged in production of numerous works for video content and won a wide variety of awards.
Omnibus Japan
Not only as a post-production facility for commercials, TV programs and streaming content but also as a producer of OOH (out-of-home advertising) and large-scale VFX/CGI, Omnibus Japan handles over 4,000 projects annually and has won multiple domestic and international awards. We never rest on our laurels. We are aggressively pursuing research and development into the newly emerging technologies such as dome projection and media art as well as VR and AR.
“App-less AR®”: AR without need for an app
“Omniline®”: Online commercials delivery service
“superSymmetry”: Creative unit where artists both inside and outside the company intersect
AFFILIATED COMPANIES
Broadcasting, Streaming
Maximizing appeal through attractive programming of each thematic channel and its streaming service.
In 1986, we launched Japan’s first ever premium service. We currently own and operate 3 channels in CS broadcasting such as Super!drama TV, Family Gekijyo, and Igo & Shogi Channel. We deliver diverse content focused on a specific genre that resonates with each community of our subscribers. In the age of “a shift to digital,” while pursuing the highest possible visual quality, we offer to our subscribers streaming services such as “Fami geki Neo plus” and “Igo & Shogi Plus” to fulfill the needs of our subscribers.
Licensing & Merchandising
Presenting a wealth of content from Japan and abroad through a multifaceted approach.
Character Licensing
We license international characters such as “Thunderbirds”, “Shaun the Sheep” and “Teletubbies” as well as those from Japanese anime series including “Space Battleship Yamato” and our original series “Garo.” We also handle the likeness rights to such film icons as Toshiro Mifune. Our wide range of licensing activities does not stop with merchandising alone. We leverage the rights to those intellectual properties for the maximum impact through advertising and promotional use.
Production Planning, Acquisition, Sales & Theatrical Release of Video Content
We develop and produce theatrical feature films and anime, and also participate in co-productions and investments. In addition, we acquire and license domestic and foreign video content such as feature films and TV programs.
Product Sales
For our diversified business, we operate “National Trading, Inc.” which activities range from the sales of video equipment to the import of luxury fabrics for interiors. In addition, we operate “Kimura Brewery, inc.”, a sake brewery located at Yuzawa-shi, Akita prefecture, which manufactures and sells high-class Japanese sake products.
National Trading, Inc.
<Importation / sales of fabrics for interior decoration>
For more than 40 years, National Trading, Inc. has been importing and delivering carefully-selected products of fabrics for interior decoration including carpet and accessories from manufacturers overseas including “JAB ANSTOETZ GROUP” in Germany, a largest fabric trading company in Europe as well as various top brands in Europe and the U.S. Our experienced staff can respond to any of customers’ requests regarding interior design, from coordination to design and construction.
<Sales of storage media for broadcast use>
National Trading, Inc. handles sales of domestic and international storage media for broadcast and professional use, devices for video production and audio equipment, and IT-related products. In addition, National Trading, Inc. offers services of pressing / duplication of DVD and Blu-ray discs, cloud subscription archiving and print / media conversion for various formats.
Kimura Brewery Inc.
<Manufacturing and sales of Japanese sake products>
Since its founding in Yuzawa-shi, Akita prefecture 400 years ago, Kimura Brewery Inc. has been focused on making high-class Japanese sake such as “Fukukomachi,” the brewery’s signature brand. Kimura Brewery was started by an immediate family member of Shigenari Kimura, a retainer for the feudal lord Hideyori Toyotomi. The tradition of brewing sake during the coldest period of winter has been established and passed along through the generations and is honored at our brewery to this day. The unique characteristics of Akita sake create our signature mellow umami, carefully brewed century after century.