Eiji Funakoshi Movies

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

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

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

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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

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...

A dead lover returns as a ghost