Asmik Ace Entertainment

Asmik Ace Entertainment was formed in 1997 through a merger between the Asmik Corporation and Ace Entertainment, both of Japan. The name Asmik comes from its three founding companies: Ask, Sumitomo, Kodansha. Asmik Corporation was founded in 1985 as a subsidiary to the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan. Its focus was in the area of video games for the video game console market, specifically the NES. It quickly moved on to distribute motion pictures in Japan, and won several awards for doing so. It once had a North American subsidiary, Asmik Corporation of America.

Ace Pictures Inc. was founded in 1981 as a division of Nippon Herald Films to produce Japanese films and distribute foreign art films. Several of its pictures earned awards and hold positions as some of the highest grossing films in Japan.

Asmik Ace Entertainment has produced games for the PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PC Engine, Nintendo 64 and GameCube, and distributes high quality films for the Japanese movie market.

Asmik Ace Entertainment also distributes a number of films from DreamWorks in Japanese theaters.

Video games

Asmik had a mascot named Boomer (Asmik-kun in Japan), which was featured in several video games.

*"Asmik-kun Land" (Famicom)
*"Asmik-kun World 2" (Game Boy)
*"Astro Troop Vanark" (PlayStation)
*"Battle Zeque Den" (Super Famicom)
*"Boomer's Adventure in ASMIK World" ("Asmik-Kun World")
*"Conquest of the Crystal Palace"
*"Cosmic Epsilon"
*"Cutie Suzuki Ringside Angel" (MegaDrive)
*"Deep Dungeon IV"
*"D-Force"
*"Dimension Force" (Super Famicom)
*"Gambler Jiko Chuushinha"
*"Gambler Jiko Chuushinha 2"
*"Hunter Lime Special Collection Vol 2" (PlayStation)
*"Jumping Kid" (Japan only - planned US release as "Jack and the Beanstalk")
*"Jyuouki" (port of arcade game known outside of Japan as "Altered Beast")
*"LSD (video game)" (PlayStation)
*"" (GameCube)
*"Meimon! Tako Nishiouendan"
*"Mysterium"
*"Nippon Ichi no Nakantoku"
*"Oh No!" (PlayStation)
*"Power Drift" (PC Engine)
*"Rhythm N Face" (PlayStation)
*"Shinobi" (PC Engine)
*"Sidewinder" (PlayStation)
*"Sidewinder 2" (PlayStation)
*"Super Hydlide" (MegaDrive)
*"" (Dreamcast)
*"Verytex" (MegaDrive)
*"Virtual Pro Wrestling 2" (Nintendo 64)
*"Xardion" (Super Famicom)

External links

* [http://www.asmik-ace.co.jp/ Asmik Ace Entertainment]