SURPRISE HIT is operated by the Magic Promotion Section of the Entertainment Division at ace television entertainment inc. - the team responsible for managing and booking performers and for planning and running events.
The name of this site comes from that sentence. What is left after an event ends is the story of the moment people were astonished, and the laughter in the room. We send magicians and street performers so that this is the part people remember as the high point of the day.
Sometimes we send a single performer; sometimes we take on the running of an entire ceremony.
ace television entertainment inc. was founded in 2018, but the work of sending magicians to hotels and companies had been going on well before that. The first time it took proper shape was the Magic Festival held at the Keio Plaza Hotel.
At the time there were many skilled professional magicians in Japan with nowhere to perform. So rather than selling performers, we started by proposing the magic event itself to hotels and restaurants. The person who went to the hotel and made the case is the one who runs the Entertainment Division today. The proposal document was written and presented by the magician Taiga Endo. The hotel agreed, and a festival bringing together some of the world's best-known magicians was set.
It was scheduled for August 2011. Then, on 11 March that year, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. Events were being called off across the country and the festival was in doubt. It went ahead because the hotel's president took the view that “it is precisely at a time like this that we should do what we can to lift Japan”, and because of the determination of the person in charge of the programme. The tickets sold out.
Not simply sending one performer, but taking the event on from the planning stage: the shape of what we do now was settled then. Most of the ceremonies and anniversary events in our list of work follow directly from it.
For the performers we can introduce today, see our performer list.
Magician and producer. He discovered magic in his third year of primary school and moved to Tokyo alone as soon as he left high school. He has won three categories at the Japan Cup, the national championship. At the Magic Castle in Hollywood he passed the audition, became a member and has performed there. In competitive skill events he holds two world records. The 2011 Magic Festival at the Keio Plaza Hotel came about because he wrote the proposal.
Tell us what the event is for, and we will put forward several performers and acts.
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