title: Shochiku Geino
text: # Shochiku Geino
  
  Shochiku Geino Co., Ltd (松竹芸能株式会社) is a Japanese talent agency headquartered in Chuo-ku, Osaka. It was founded in 1958 under the conglomerate Shochiku Co., Ltd and focuses on talent management for comedians and tarento. The agency mainly associates itself with acts and entertainment under the Kamigata culture.
  
  ## Notable talents
  
  ### Comedians
  
  **Groups**
  
  * America Zarigani (Tetsuya Yanagihara, Yoshiyuki Hirai)
  * Masuda Okada (Hidehiko Masuda, Keisuke Okada)
  * TKO (Takehiro Kimoto, Takayuki Kinoshita)
  * Yasuda Dai Circus (Yasuda Dancho, Kuro-chan, HIRO)
  * Yoiko (Masaru Hamaguchi, Shinya Arino)
  
  **Solo**
  
  * Kintalo
  * Buruma Konno
  * Kenji Moriwaki
  * Shōfukutei Tsurube II
  
  ### Other tarento
  
  * Chiemi Hori (singer, actress)
  * Atsushi Oyagi (former rugby player)
  * Masakatsu Funaki (actor, wrestler)
  
  ### Former talents
  
  * Othello (Tomoko Nakajima, Mahomi Matsushima)
  