Avex Pictures

, usually stylized as avex pictures, is a Japanese video production, sales, and film distribution company. It is a is a subsidiary of and a sibling subsidiary to Avex Entertainment and Avex Digital. It is a regular member of the Association of Japanese Animations and a supporting member of the Recording Industry Association of Japan. It was established on April 1, 2014 by splitting and integrating the video package business of Avex Entertainment and Avex Marketing.

Despite being focused on video, it also handles anime music artists (marketing, promotion, representation, and distribution). This also includes representing some seiyū.

In mid 2023, it was announced that Avex Pictures would be re-organized to divide work between Avex Animation Labels and Avex Film Labels subsidiaries. The two new subsidiaries will be established on August 1, 2023 with the former handling animation-related business and the latter handling live-action related business. Hideo Katsumata will continue to serve as CEO of Avex Pictures. Ryō Ōyama, who serves as Avex Pictures' executive officer, will be Avex Animation Labels' representative director. Tomokazu Iizumi will be the director, and Atsuhiko Miyakoshi will be the new company's executive officer. Avex Film Labels' representative director will be Nobuhiro Maeno, who is also the director of Avex Pictures, and Tsuyoshi Nishiyama will be the executive officer.

Labels

 * avex pictures
 * In October 2004, Avex Marketing was established as a video label focusing on foreign films. After the establishment of Avex Pictures Inc. on April 1, 2014, it has been used as a video label for anime and live-action works in general, as well as an anime music label.


 * DIVE II entertainment
 * An anime/voice actor music label. The logo notation is DIVE II.
 * In 2010, it was launched in partnership with Dwango, a content distribution service company (at that time) under its umbrella. For this reason, the music production of some anime works (such as the Nyaruko: Crawling With Love anime series included the theme song production and casting).