Eiji Funakoshi Movies

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

A brutal murder in the dead of night. While the man who left bloody fingerprints and footprints screams he is innocent, the intelligent criminal,...

1956 Daiei movie

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...

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of...