Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社バンダイナムコフィルムワークス, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Bandai Namuko Firumuwākusu), previously and still famously known as Sunrise, Inc., is a Japanese animation studio founded in September 1972 and is based in Suginami, Tokyo. Its former names were also Soeisha, Nippon Sunrise and Sunrise Studio.