{"id":556559,"date":"2026-07-24T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/556559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:26:09","slug":"inside-toho-archives-mission-to-save-japans-cinematic-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/556559\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Toho Archive\u2019s mission to save Japan\u2019s cinematic memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the residential neighborhood of Seijo, Setagaya Ward, a small team of 25 people at Toho Archive is working to preserve a physical record of Japanese film history.<\/p>\n<p>Toho Archive\u2019s catalog reads like a syllabus of Japanese film history: Akira Kurosawa\u2019s \u201cSeven Samurai,\u201d the original \u201cGodzilla\u201d series, Kenji Mizoguchi\u2019s \u201cThe Life of Oharu\u201d and Mikio Naruse\u2019s \u201cFloating Clouds\u201d as well as beloved animated franchises such as \u201cDoraemon\u201d and \u201cDetective Conan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the organization was officially established in December 2023, it has a much longer lineage as the direct successor to Tokyo Laboratory, a film-processing house that was founded in 1955 and pioneered the world\u2019s first \u201cgin-nokoshi\u201d (literally, \u201csilver retention\u201d; also known as bleach bypass) coloring technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the residential neighborhood of Seijo, Setagaya Ward, a small team of 25 people at Toho Archive is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80297,252365,229510,146,72846,85,46,234200,252363,252364,72861],"class_list":["post-556559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-akira-kurosawa","tag-detective-conan","tag-doraemon","tag-entertainment","tag-godzilla","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japanese-film","tag-kenji-mizoguchi","tag-mikio-naruse","tag-toho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}