Maruten Studio

Maruten Studio (有限会社マルテンスタジオ) was a defunct Japanese animation studio established in 1921 by Masamichi Kikuchi, father of voice actor Masami Kikuchi. The company became well known after working on Small Friends, Big Adventure in 1931.

During World War II, the company closed on April 27, 1945.

Notable films

 * The Big Road (1929)
 * Small Friends, Big Adventure (1931)
 * The Night in the Big City (1933)
 * My Two Precious Daughters (1935)
 * Polly and a Lovely Bat (1937)
 * Love at the First Sight (1942)
 * Love in the Time of Violence (1943)

Talent
Maruten, like other early studios had an in-house talent pool of directors, voice actors, voice actresses, and screenwriters. Many, in fact, had been talent under contract with one of the four branch studios while they were still independent. The following is an incomplete list of such talent.

Directors

 * Masamichi Kikuchi
 * Kenji Hayashibara
 * Yuriko Yoshida
 * Minoru Hikisaka
 * Takahiro Shimada
 * Kimiko Nakano
 * Kazuko Watanabe

Screenwriters

 * Suika Hamada
 * Miki Hanai
 * Hideki Anai
 * Kaguya Ikeda
 * Yasuyuki Sawada

Producers

 * Chieko Kotobuki
 * Kaguya Ikeda
 * Takahiro Shimada
 * Kimiko Nakano
 * Kazuko Watanabe

Animators

 * Joji Tamaki
 * Seiko Tamazawa
 * Munemori Hata
 * Takayuki Nakahara
 * Eikichi Yukawa
 * Sachiko Wakai
 * Kunimichi Aki
 * Haruhiro Nagatsuka

Inbetweeners

 * Yoshisada Tada
 * Mitsukuni Fukasawa
 * Noriko Furukawa
 * Michihiro Ozawa
 * Matsuko Hamamoto
 * Minoru Sakamoto

Cel Painters

 * Kyoko Machida
 * Yoshinori Kinoshita
 * Masujiro Okimoto
 * Matsuko Hamamoto
 * Mariko Hoshino
 * Koyuki Mihama

Background Artists

 * Himeko Sakamoto
 * Rina Suzuki
 * Kiyoko Nohira
 * Izumi Nakata
 * Aneko Akamine
 * Masae Nakajima

Music Composers

 * Tetsu Matsushima
 * Daisuke Ishimoto
 * Sotaro Hayakawa
 * Haruka Nishikawa

Photographers

 * Yoshifumi Araki
 * Mayumi Arai
 * Yasuhiro Ikehata
 * Shunsuke Tsukino
 * Kansuke Ichikawa
 * Isoko Noguchi

Editors

 * Tetsuyuki Yamada
 * Tetsuo Shimada

Sound Recordists

 * Tetsuharu Kaneda
 * Toshiaki Yukawa
 * Akio Yajima
 * Shunsuke Sakiyama

Sound Designers/Editors

 * Akio Yajima
 * Harunobu Fukase

Voice Actors/Actresses

 * Sadao Hiroi
 * Mushanokoji Tsutsumi
 * Katsuyuki Yamashina
 * Takanobu Arai
 * Kazuhiro Okumura
 * Shinzaburo Ichida
 * Koko Hirano
 * Nana Wakimoto
 * Saeko Kyoya
 * Chie Matsunaga
 * Aneko Tomita
 * Nezuko Wakamoto
 * Yuko Usui
 * Satoko Yoshitaka
 * Nagisa Hirose
 * Sakuko Morishita