Warner-Daiei Video

History
Warner-Daiei Video (Japanese: ワーナーダイエーの動画, Hepburn: Wānā Daiē No Dōga) is the home entertainment division of Nippon Warner Daiei, is a Japanese home video entertainment company formed as a joint venture between Warner Bros. & Daiei Motion Pictures (now owned by Tokuma Shoten). Warner Daiei Video started in 1982 to distribute both Warner Bros. & Daiei films on major video formats such as the VHS, Betamax and the LaserDisc to the Japanese market.

Warner-Daiei Video was dissolved in October 1992 as Warner Bros. pulled out of the venture and started to release their titles on their own label.

Catalog
Warner-Daiei Video distributed titles from from both Warner Bros. & Daiei Film libraries as well as the Japanese home video distributor of films released by MGM/UA, The Cannon Group, AVCO/Embassy Pictures, Orion Pictures, New World Pictures, Pathé Europa, Rank Organisation, Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers Company, Thorn EMI, Vestron Pictures & Tristar Pictures. Known titles released by Warner-Daiei are the Zatoichi series by Kan Shimozawa, The Towering Inferno, Blade Runner, Dirty Dancing, Annie Hall, The Shining, Bugs Bunny Superstar, The Wizard of Oz, Superman among others.