He attracted youngpeoplein their 20s who had once belonged to Taikatsu (Taisho Katsuei Film Studio) and people from Kokkatsu (Kokusai Katsuei Film Company), and madea then-actor, Teisnosuke KINUGASA, switch to afilm director.
Susukita lived in the sameboardinghouse with actors suchas Tsumasaburo BANDO, Buntaro FUTAGAWA and Kintaro INOUE, used to discuss films with them, and recommended Bando, a then-uncredited actor, to Makino.
His actors division, except for Rihaku ARASHI, consisted of MAKINO's relatives: his daughter Tomie, his sons Masahiro MAKINO and Mitsuo MAKINO, his youngermaternalhalfsister Kyoko, and her husband Ichitaro KATAOKA.
Kintaro INOUE and Tomu UCHIDA, Buntaro FUTAGAWA, Atsushi WATANABE (actor), Ureo EGAWA, Tokihiko OKADA, and Sumiko SUZUKI who belonged to the actors division entered Kyoto leadby Yotahei BAKU (laterknownas Takuji FURUMI), who wandered varioustheatrical companies of 'Asakusa Opera', quit 'Negishi Dai-Kagekidan' (Negishi greatoperacompany) and became actor and directorat Daikatsu, and his wife Yoko BENISAWA.
Around the end of the year, acouple of actor Douglas FAIRBANKS and Mary PICKFORD, whoestablished United Artists Entertainment LLC in 1919, the sameyearin which Shozo MAKINO established 'Mikado Shokai,' visited the company's 'Omuro Studio.'
Although the companyestablished 'Shin Makino Eiga Kabushiki Gaisha' in May of the year, productionat Omuro Studio was not resumed and actors resigned from the company successively.
Key members of the players department were Tozaburo TSUBAME and Genzaburo AYANOKOJI, who called himself Reizaburo ASAKA, from Kawai Eiga Seisakusha, Yoichi MIZUHARA from Takarazuka Kinema and anaviator named Shinpei TAKAGI, aswellas Keiko ISUZU from Shinko Kinema.