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Urban Vision Entertainment Inc. was an American production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in July 1996, it specialized in acquiring Japanese animation for direct-to-home video release in the United States, later expanding into Spanish-language and Japanese-language live-action films.
Mataichiro Yamamoto founded Urban Vision Entertainment in July 1996. He had previously helped introduce anime to American audiences with the computer-generated theatrical release Golgo 13: The Professional in 1983.
Urban Vision Entertainment's first release was Bio Hunter, a production by Studio Madhouse, which came out on home video in July 1997. Madhouse was a Tokyo-based animation studio also known for Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D.
Urban Vision Entertainment shut down in November 2016. The company had become inactive in the late 2000s and on the 7th of September 2010 announced it was halting its home video production unit to focus on digital distribution.
A majority of Urban Vision Entertainment's former titles have been re-licensed and re-released by Discotek Media and Sentai Filmworks. This includes titles such as Ninja Scroll: The Series, Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D, and Gatchaman.
Urban Vision launched two sub-labels in the mid-2000s: Ciudad for Spanish-language films and AsiaVision for Japanese-language films. AsiaVision distributed titles including Azumi and Azumi 2: Death or Love.