Round 5: Tossup 10

Warner Bros. and this company co-produced None But the Brave, the only movie directed by Frank Sinatra. Due to legal pressure from this company, Sea Shepherd renamed a vessel after Brigitte Bardot. This company’s employees justified their 1940s unionization by making the film Those Who Make Tomorrow, and then occupied (15[1])its studios during months-long strikes quelled by US Army tanks. This company distributed a 1964 anthology based on ghost stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan. Luigi Cozzi spliced wartime newsreels into his colorized Italian version of a film by this company, whose most famous (*) sound effect was created by rubbing a resin-coated (10[1])glove on a contrabass string. One of this company’s films, which was re-edited in America to center on a reporter played by Raymond Burr, pioneered the “suitmation” technique used in tokusatsu movies. For 10 points, Eiji Tsuburaya and Ishirō Honda created what company’s kaiju, like Mothra and Godzilla? ■END■

ANSWER: Toho [or Toho Co., Ltd.; or Tōhō Kabushiki gaisha] (The vessel Merida, formerly known as Brigitte Bardot, was once called Gojira.)
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-212100%50%0%75.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-211090%20%10%116.56
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-21367%33%33%109.50