Glovision Inc. (グロービジョン株式会社 ''Gurōbijon Kabushiki-Gaisha'') is a Japanese post-production company, that subtitles, dubs and post produces foreign Television dramas and

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

s, mainly the work of animation dubbing and DVD production work. They also dub character voices in

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

for foreign video games that were originally developed outside Japan, for the releases of the region's market. Its major shareholder is

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...

History

*Glovision was founded on August 8, 1963. Foreign drama and documentary programming dubbed foreign films in Japanese, and also while working on subtitling, audio-visual studio operates. *National cartoon ''

Sazae-san is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the ''Asahi Shimbun'' wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for thei ...

'', including foreign drama was also a monument of the Columbo series, hit movies in recent years, mainly teenagers explosive worldwide like the ''Twilight'' film series,

Korean drama Korean dramas (; RR: ''Han-guk deurama''), more popularly known as K-dramas, are television series in the Korean language, made in South Korea. They are popular worldwide, especially in Asia, partially due to the spread of Korean popular cultu ...

Jewel in the Palace ''Dae Jang Geum'' (; literally "The Great Jang-geum"), also known as ''Jewel in the Palace'', is a 2003 South Korean historical drama television series directed by Lee Byung-hoon. It first aired on MBC from September 15, 2003 to March 23, 2 ...

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'' and Lee San in charge of dubbing and subtitling services for animation and a number of foreign works. *In 2000 a subsidiary of Kadokawa Holdings known as Kadokawa Gerald Pictures Inc. was founded, taken under the 2005 banner and then changed its name to Kadokawa Herald Pictures, through the integration of

Kadokawa Pictures Kadokawa Daiei Studio, formerly is the film division of the Japanese company the Kadokawa Corporation. It is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is therefore one of Japan's Big Four film stud ...

subsequently changed its name, it was merged with Kadokawa Pictures in January 2011, and has become a wholly owned subsidiary of

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* (in Japanese) {{Authority control Entertainment companies of Japan Film production companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1963 Japanese dubbing studios Kadokawa Corporation subsidiaries Mass media companies based in Tokyo Mass media companies established in 1963 Television and film post-production companies