Eiji Funakoshi
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eiji Funakoshi ( 17 March 1923 - 17 March 2007) was a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Funakoshi , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: March 17, 1923
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
Rabble Tactics
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 recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
Thousand Cranes
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 Yasunari.
The Makioka Sisters
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.
Superexpress
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 automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Warm Current
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
The Most Valuable Wife
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Bridge of Japan
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 melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Filmography
as 真之助の父・香木真太郎
as Onodera
as 白川義信
as Kikuji's father
as Dr. Shiga
as Michio
as Fumio Nishino
as Goro Mizuike
as Koji Negishi
as Shinkichi Yûki
as Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow
as Dr. Hidaka
as Keizo
as Dr. Hidaka
as Masayoshi Zaitsu
as Kotaro Kakiuchi
as Kazuo Arima
as Fugu
as Yukichi Fukuzawa
as Yaju
as Heima Kadokura
as Eisaku Kamiya, the tax collector
as Goro
as Kimio Hiraki
as Keinoshin Kazama
as Aoyagi
as Menosuke
as Toku no Ichi / Tatsu no Ichi
as Kaze
as Kyosuke Kuniyuki
as Writer Gomu
as Tosaku Yakata / Toku Ogata
as Ryusuke Suma
as Jōji Kawai
as Kihei
as Susumu Aikawa
as Futetsu / Fuketsu Aishinkakura
as Tamura
as Itazaki
as Ichiro Mihara
as Torao Ichige
as Shuichi Ema
as Tsunanori Uesugi
as Hiroshi Takayama
as Yasuhiko Shima
as Koisuke Sengi
as Shuji
as Yamano
as Shinpachiro Kasahara
as Tadao
as Ichiro Totsuka
as Tomiyama
as Sadaichi Kimura
as Kobata
as Soichi Ataka
as Ozaki
as Tatsuo Tsuchiya