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Daiei Film was the product of government efforts to reorganize the film industry during World War II in order to rationalize use of resources and increase control over the medium. Against a government plan to combine all the film studios into two companies,
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At its peak, Daiei featured such talent as the actors Raizō Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu,
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Nagata became president in 1947 and, apart from a brief period when he was purged by
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