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TBS Sparkle

TBS Sparkle, Inc.
Native name
株式会社TBSスパークル
Kabushiki-gaisha TBS supākuru
FormerlyTBS Content Products, Inc. (2018)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMedia
PredecessorTBS Vision
FoundedJune 29, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-06-29)
HeadquartersAkasaka, ,
Japan
OwnerTBS Holdings
Websitetbssparkle.co.jp/en/

TBS Sparkle, Inc. (Stylized as all caps), is a Japanese media production company and a subsidiary of TBS Television. Recently, the company produced shows such as Takeshi's Castle (2023 edition), Extremely Inappropriate!, Let's Get Divorced, Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? and Light of My Lion, as well as feature films Last Mile, Faceless and Grand Maison Paris.[1] It won a Silver at the 2024 ContentAsia Awards for Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle, and Last Mile and Faceless took home a total of four Japan Academy Film Prizes in 2025.[2][3]

History

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TBS Sparkle has its roots in Tokyo Terebi Eiga (Tokyo TV Film Company), founded in 1955. The company changed names several times through the course of its history,[4] and in 2018, it and 10 other TBS subsidiaries merged to become TBS Sparkle.[5]

Recent works

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Television dramas

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References:[6]

Films

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  • Faceless
  • Grand Maison Paris
  • Last Mile
  • My Home Hero the Movie
  • As Long as We Both Shall Live (Japanese film)
  • The Forbidden Play
  • Fragments of the Last Will
  • We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
  • Homestay (Amazon movie)

Documentaries / Other Programs

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  • Isamu Noguchi's Unfinished A-Bomb Cenotaph[7]
  • A Long Search for a Little Girl - An Old Report Card Unveils an Untold History
  • Takeshi's Castle (2023 edition)
  • The World Heritage
  • A Monk Who Wears Heels[8]
  • Getting to Know Beautiful Japan
  • Tokyo Nostalgic Ramen
  • Prime Japan

Anime

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References

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  1. ^ "TBS SPARKLE". TBS SPARKLE. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  2. ^ "Winners 2024". ContentAsia Awards. 2024-07-14. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  3. ^ "日本アカデミー賞公式サイト". (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  4. ^ 日本の企業がわかる事典2014-2015. "TBSビジョン(ティービーエスビジョン)とは? 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "子会社の合併完了に関するお知らせ" (pdf). TBS Holdings Inc. (in Japanese). April 1, 2019.
  6. ^ "TBS SPARKLE". TBS SPARKLE. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  7. ^ "Isamu Noguchi's Unfinished A-Bomb Cenotaph | NHK WORLD-JAPAN". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  8. ^ "A Monk Who Wears Heels | NHK WORLD-JAPAN". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 2024-11-11.