Anjohn International Limited

HONDO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Anjohn International Limited was a private company. Date of incorporation in Hong Kong  12/ 10 /1982 and dissolved 2003.

The following films were released in Australia on either 16mm, 35mm or both include the following -

ACQUASANTA JOE ( Italy )

THE ABDUCTORS ( Greece )

GENOCIDE ( Japan )

LILL, MY DARLING WITCH ( Japan )

MURDER IN THE DEEP (  Japan )

All the above five films listed have duotone daybills.

On my ''Daybill posters printed for 16mm release only'' thread three more images are available along with details on the films.  

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Genocide is amazing!

HONDO

theartofmovieposters

Oh I had a Murder in the Deep ages ago...

theartofmovieposters

Found some I used to have...

The Kokusai Girls - Australian Daybill

Chase That Man - Australian Daybill

The Brave Bunch - Australian Daybill:

HONDO

Very good Ves. Not much known about these films. All the three daybills have  post 1971 rating classifications on them. The Brave Bunch ( 1970 ) classified only for public exhibition on 16mm only in 1974. No classification information available on the other two titles.

HONDO

Eight from the past to feast your eyes on.

collectahollic

Really nice Lawrence, the duotone actually works pretty well. 

John

HONDO

Excellent find, as press sheets from little known small independent Australian film distributors such Anjohn International are rarely seen. Hopefully a daybill will turn up one day for High Ice ( 1980 ).This film would appear to have been one of their latter released films. Due to the new  November 1971 classifications appearing on their other known daybills it appears that the companies product was released in Australia in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. Needless to say that very few bookings are likely to have taken place for these films.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Let's add The Jet Set ( 1972 ) and Tiger Gang ( 1971 ) to Anjohn International Australian produced daybills. They were printed in the usual similar style duotone versions that Anjohn International always printed their daybills in.

 
This now makes a total of ten daybills produced for Anjohn International that I am aware of.

A final comment here is that I believe that the quality of the Robert Burton produced Anjohn International daybills is well above the usual standard of duotone produced daybills from around this period of time.  I particularly like the Genocide, The Kokuasai Girls and The Jet Set designs.

John

John said:

The press sheet doesn't mention whether posters were printed but you would think there is a good chance that there might have been a daybill printing. High Ice was apparently made for TV but had limited Internanational release as a film.

Rick

Genocide is the pick of the bunch. It sells for around $100.

HONDO

The more I research into Anjohn International the more interesting it becomes.

I intend to add some more information here in the future.

John

HONDO

This thread has proved to be of interest since it commenced in 2015.

I was wondering if I should start up another thread and cover poster images of one more little known and even more obscure Australian distributor that you mosr likely have never heard of.

  

Let me know?         

HONDO

Just for the record due to a no show of interest in my new thread idea I have now decided that I won't be introducing it here.

Rick

I'm sure I'd be interested. I don't always comment but like looking.

HONDO

Thanks. I will contact you personally Rick.

John

I would be interested too

HONDO

Anyone else interested then?

HONDO

O.K. for the record then the little information that I know about Merite Trading Co. Pty.Ltd., a.k.a. Merite Film Productions Sydney is as follows.

This very obscure small independent Australian film distributor operated here from circa 1956 until at least 1971, and perhaps even longer than that.

Bookings would have been far and few between for this company. No newspapers bookings were located though searching all the sources available to me to do so.
 
For a long period of time it appears that their films were distributed in N.S.W. only by National Films Of NSW., and in other states by different independent distributors.

The only two films that I have established would have been screened in Australia are only known through the following located film posters. Both these two films were acquired from the low budget U.K. film distributor Butcher's Film Service. Lrd.

 
Dark Secret (1949). Australian release unknown, but has to be 1950s.


Calling Paul Temple (1948). Again Australian film release not known and from the 1950 also.

HONDO

Of course if anyone has any other daybills or other posters or infornation on Merite please share it here with us.

HONDO

 An even more obscure small independent Australian film distributor will be included here soon.

Rick

Is that Atlas?

HONDO

Rick said:

Is that Atlas?

Not sure if you are asking if the distributor is Atlas Films, or for the image being the Atlas 196l film.

The answer though is no to both.

Rick

I have the daybill, just trying to place the title.

Rick

Mighty Ursus?

HONDO

Rick said:

Mighty Ursus?

Not Mighty Ursus.
Does the following additional image help at all?

Rick

No!

HONDO

O.k. then time to mention an Australian small independent film distributor named Jason, that apart from the following daybill, absolutely nothing whatsoever has been found by me regarding this distributor. 

The following rare Australian daybill of The Mighty Jungle crediting Jason as being the distributor was printed for the 1964 U.S.A. released film.



I could find no record of the film ever being released here, or any information on Jason Films whatsoever.  By all available information on the film it has been called a stinker.

What I am keen on finding out about is any confirmation on a release taking place here in Australia, along with any information on Jason Films and if they ever released any other films here. 

Does anyone have a daybill, or any other Australian paper with A Jason Release credit appearing on it?

We can rule out the A Jason Release credit perhaps being the U.S.A. distributor, as this was Parade Pictures.                                          

Rick

I knew i recognised it from somewhere in my collection. Thanks for revealing the title.