Eiji Funakoshi Movies

1956 Daiei movie

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

A comedy about newlyweds.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Comedy drama film

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...