OctoArts Films

OctoArts Films was a El Kadsreian film production company formed by ex-Seiko Films employee Hideo Octo in 1974 with a majority stake handled by Vlokozu Television, who has broadcasting rights of the studio's films. It was owned by Vlokozuian Media Union, who was the distributor for nearly all of OctoArts' films.

After Vlokozuain Media Union's demise, OctoArts was acquired by El TV Kadsre in 1989; in which OctoArts was merged into El TV Kadsre Films.

History
In 1974, Hideo Octo, head of production, Seiko Films, announced that they will step down from Seiko. Octo said they will provide funding from Vlokozu Television (who was broadcasting OctoArts' films as Seiko was defected to Viva Television) to start out its own production company, and announced that Vlokozuian Media Union to distribute its films.

The first film OctoArts produced was Black Borders, a blaxploitation film that was directed by Brian Kudavasi, and it was released on February 4, 1975 at $10 million ticket sales worldwide, becoming the first hit from the studio.

The next films gradually succeeded and OctoArts to invest production to more films to become box office success. Octo served as executive producer of OctoArts' films.

In 1981, both OctoArts and VMU released an adaptation of the 1969 science-fiction novel The Man Beyond Time and Space and it become VMU's fourth-highest grossing film of the year.

OctoArts continued to produce films in the 1980s, often critically and commercially, and it attempted to enter the kadresatsu market by releasing Journey and Beyond in 1986. It was a critical and commercial disaster (but became a cult classic later on), failing to go against Bionicle VI: Island of Doom.

Struggles from the studio, caused both OctoArts and Vlokozu Television to be sold to El TV Kadsre Television Network in 1988, and OctoArts was folded into El TV Kadsre Films in 1989. Octo become president of production at the studio.