Eiji Funakoshi Movies

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

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...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

1958 Japanese movie

Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...