Article · Wikipedia archive · Last revised Jul 7, 2026

TBS Sparkle

TBS Sparkle, Inc., is a Japanese media production company and a subsidiary of TBS Television. Recently, the company produced shows such as Takeshi's Castle, Extremely Inappropriate!, Let's Get Divorced, Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? and Light of My Lion, as well as feature films Last Mile, Faceless and Grand Maison Paris. It won a Silver at the 2024 ContentAsia Awards for Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle, and Last Mile and Faceless took home a total of four Japan Academy Film Prizes in 2025.

Last revised
Jul 7, 2026
Read time
≈ 2 min
Length
407 w
Citations
8
Source
Wikipedia ↗
TBS Sparkle, Inc.
Native name
株式会社TBSスパークル
Kabushiki-gaisha TBS supākuru
FormerlyTBS Content Products, Inc. (2018)
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryMedia
PredecessorTBS Vision
FoundedJune 29, 2018 (2018-06-29)
HeadquartersAkasaka,
Minato, Tokyo
,
Japan
OwnerTBS Holdings
Websitetbssparkle.co.jp/en/

TBS Sparkle, Inc. (Stylized as all caps), is a Japanese media production company and a subsidiary of TBS Television. Recently, the company produced shows such as Takeshi's Castle (2023 edition), Extremely Inappropriate!, Let's Get Divorced, Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? and Light of My Lion, as well as feature films Last Mile, Faceless and Grand Maison Paris.1 It won a Silver at the 2024 ContentAsia Awards for Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle, and Last Mile and Faceless took home a total of four Japan Academy Film Prizes in 2025.23

History

TBS Sparkle has its roots in Tokyo Terebi Eiga (Tokyo TV Film Company), founded in 1955. The company changed names several times through the course of its history,4 and in 2018, it and 10 other TBS subsidiaries merged to become TBS Sparkle.5

Recent works

Television dramas

References:6

Films

  • Faceless
  • Grand Maison Paris
  • Last Mile
  • My Home Hero the Movie
  • As Long as We Both Shall Live (Japanese film)
  • The Forbidden Play
  • Fragments of the Last Will
  • We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
  • Homestay (Amazon movie)

Documentaries / Other Programs

  • Isamu Noguchi's Unfinished A-Bomb Cenotaph7
  • A Long Search for a Little Girl - An Old Report Card Unveils an Untold History
  • Takeshi's Castle (2023 edition)
  • The World Heritage
  • A Monk Who Wears Heels8
  • Getting to Know Beautiful Japan
  • Tokyo Nostalgic Ramen
  • Prime Japan

Anime

References

References

  1. "TBS SPARKLE". TBS SPARKLE. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  2. "Winners 2024". ContentAsia Awards. 2024-07-14. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  3. "日本アカデミー賞公式サイト". (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  4. 日本の企業がわかる事典2014-2015. "TBSビジョン(ティービーエスビジョン)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "子会社の合併完了に関するお知らせ" (pdf). TBS Holdings Inc. (in Japanese). April 1, 2019.
  6. "TBS SPARKLE". TBS SPARKLE. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  7. "Isamu Noguchi's Unfinished A-Bomb Cenotaph | NHK WORLD-JAPAN". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  8. "A Monk Who Wears Heels | NHK WORLD-JAPAN". NHK WORLD. Retrieved 2024-11-11.