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, commonly known as Tokyo Metro , is a rapid transit system in Tokyo , Japan . While it is not the only rapid transit system operating in Tokyo , it has the higher ridership among the two operators : in 2014 , the Tokyo Metro had an average daily ridership of 6 . 84 million passengers , while the other system , the ___MASK23___ Subway , had 2 . 85 million average daily rides . ___MASK18___ Industries , Inc . ( known professionally as ___MASK18___ and Columbia , and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation ) is an American film studio , production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group , a division of Sony Entertainment ' s Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony . The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn - Brandt - Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack ' s best friend Joe Brandt , released its first feature film in August 1922 . It adopted the ___MASK18___ name in 1924 , and went public two years later . Its name is derived from " Columbia ", a national personification of the United States , which is used as the studio ' s logo . In its early years , it was a minor player in Hollywood , but began to grow in the late 1920s , spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra . With Capra and others , Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy . In the 1930s , Columbia ' s major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant . In the 1940s , Rita Hayworth became the studio ' s premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s . Rosalind Russell , Glenn Ford , and William Holden also became major stars at the studio . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in ___MASK55___ , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human ___MASK55___ . Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect . Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception ). One of the oldest genres in film , some of the very first silent movies were comedies , as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions , without requiring sound . When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s , comedy films took another swing , as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue . Tokyo , officially Tokyo Metropolis , is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures . The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world . It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government . Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands . Formerly known as Edo , it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters . It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868 ; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo . Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a ___MASK32___ , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of CGI and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . Walk , Do n ' t Run is a 1966 Technicolor comedy film starring Cary Grant , set in Tokyo during the Olympic Games in 1964 . The movie marked the last appearance by Grant in a feature film , and is a remake of the 1943 film The More the Merrier . This was also the final film of director Charles Walters . Lewis R . Foster ( August 5 , 1898  June 10 , ___MASK82___ ) was an American screenwriter , film / television director , and film / television producer . He directed and wrote over one hundred films and television series between 1926 and 1960 . The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film made by ___MASK18___ which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II , especially in Washington , D . C . The picture stars Jean Arthur , Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn . The movie was directed by George Stevens . The film was written by Richard Flournoy , Lewis R . Foster , Frank Ross , and Robert Russell , from " Two ' s a Crowd ", an original story by Garson Kanin ( uncredited ). The current capital of Japan is Tokyo . In the course of ___MASK55___ , the national capital has been in many locations other than Tokyo .