Acting
Eiji Funakoshi
Born 1923-03-17
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Department: 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.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Eiji Funakoshi
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
1965
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Fires on the Plain
1959
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Kumo no Jutan
1976
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Gamera vs. Guiron
1969
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Blind Beast
1969
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An Actor's Revenge
1963
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Manji
1964
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Gammera the Invincible
1966
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Black Test Car
1962
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Elegant Beast
1962
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (178 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Secret Magistrate Asahina | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1998 |
| Summer Department Store Story | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1995 | |
 | Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1991 |
 | Romansu | 真之助の父・香木真太郎 | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu | Onodera | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Netchū Jidai | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Tree of Youth | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1977 |
 | Onna no Katei | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1977 |
 | Kumo no Jutan | 白川義信 | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again | Hyodo | Movie | 1975 |
| 女の家庭 | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1974 | |
 | 時間ですよ | 松野祥造 | TV Series | 1970 |
 | 新・与太郎戦記 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | The Woman Gambler's Trump Card | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Thousand Cranes | Kikuji's father | Movie | 1969 |
 | Gamera vs. Guiron | Dr. Shiga | Movie | 1969 |
 | Blind Beast | Michio | Movie | 1969 |
 | The Pit of Death | Fumio Nishino | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Night before Pearl Harbor | Goro Mizuike | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Diary of a Sex Counsellor | Koji Negishi | Movie | 1968 |
 | When the Cookie Crumbles | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Sisters and I | Shinkichi Yûki | Movie | 1967 |
 | Ambassador Ramen | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1967 |
 | Night Trap | Shintaro Baba | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Little Runaway | Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow | Movie | 1966 |
 | Gammera the Invincible | Dr. Hidaka | Movie | 1966 |
 | The Great White Tower | Professor Noboru Kikukawa | Movie | 1966 |
 | Freezing Point | Keizo | Movie | 1966 |
 | Gamera, the Giant Monster | Dr. Hidaka | Movie | 1965 |
 | While Yet a Wife | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Man Who Killed Six Women | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1965 |
 | I'll Cry Alone | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Forest of No Escape | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1965 |
 | Sweet Seventeen | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
| The Enforcer | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 | |
 | Superexpress | Masayoshi Zaitsu | Movie | 1964 |
 | Green Fruit | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | Manji | Kotaro Kakiuchi | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Money Dance | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1964 |
 | A Public Benefactor | Kazuo Arima | Movie | 1964 |
 | Fools at Work | Fugu | Movie | 1964 |
 | Ōkuma Shigenobu the great | Yukichi Fukuzawa | Movie | 1963 |
 | Rabble Tactics | Yaju | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Red Water | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | When Women Lie | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Teinen Taishoku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | An Actor's Revenge | Heima Kadokura | Movie | 1963 |
 | Elegant Beast | Eisaku Kamiya | Movie | 1962 |
 | Being Two Isn't Easy | Goro | Movie | 1962 |
 | Otoko to onna no sei no naka | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Venus' Tear | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Black Test Car | Kimio Hiraki | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Broken Commandment | Keinoshin Kazama | Movie | 1962 |
| Eriko | Sobei Nodera | Movie | 1962 | |
 | Stolen Pleasure | Aoyagi | Movie | 1962 |
 | Her Hidden Past | Menosuke | Movie | 1962 |
 | Aru kankei | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Their Legacy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1962 |
 | Wakai yatsura no kaidan | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Old Temple Well | Toku no Ichi / Tatsu no Ichi | Movie | 1961 |
 | A Design for Dying | Hideo Sone | Movie | 1961 |
 | Ten Women in Black | Kaze | Movie | 1961 |
 | A Lustful Man | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Shin fūfu dokuhon ren'ai-byō kanja | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | Marriageable Age | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Legendary Hell | Naminosuke | Movie | 1960 |
 | The False Student | Kyosuke Kuniyuki | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Beloved Image | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Woman Who Touched Legs | Writer Gomu | Movie | 1960 |
 | Yoru wa usotsuki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Patterns of Love | Tosaku Yakata / Toku Ogata | Movie | 1960 |
 | Victory and Defeat | Ryusuke Suma | Movie | 1960 |
 | Fool's Love | Jōji Kawai | Movie | 1960 |
 | Bonchi | Kihei | Movie | 1960 |
 | Afraid to Die | Susumu Aikawa | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Wandering Princess | Futetsu / Fuketsu Aishinkakura | Movie | 1960 |
 | A Woman's Testament | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Grave Tells All | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1960 |
 | Fires on the Plain | Tamura | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Telephone Rings in the Evening | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | Jirocho Fuji | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Cast-Off | Itazaki | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Person I Chose | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | Paper Pigeon | Makimura | Movie | 1959 |
 | Jōen | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Most Valuable Wife | Ichiro Mihara | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Makioka Sisters | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1959 |
 | Goodbye, Hello | Torao Ichige | Movie | 1959 |
 | Disobedience | Shuichi Ema | Movie | 1958 |
 | Musume no boken | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Accomplice | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Ladder of Success | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Hey, Nakamura-kun | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Lowest Man | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Women Divers | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Tainted Flowers | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Ôsaka no onna | Yonetaro Mikami | Movie | 1958 |
 | Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Loyal 47 Ronin | Tsunanori Uesugi | Movie | 1958 |
 | Mother | Hiroshi Takayama | Movie | 1958 |
 | Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Tokyo Eyes | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1958 |
 | Advance Patrol | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Warm Current | Yasuhiko Shima | Movie | 1957 |
 | Hole in One | Koisuke Sengi | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Betrothed | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Night Butterflies | Shuji | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Crowded Train | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Morning Whistling | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | Dancing Girl | Yamano | Movie | 1957 |
 | Daiei Studio is Bustling | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1957 |
 | New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Yonjū-hassai no teikō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Bridge of Japan | Shinpachiro Kasahara | Movie | 1956 |
 | Asashio yushio | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | The Sentimental Idiot | Tadao | Movie | 1956 |
 | Tokyo Crime Map | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | A Rainbow at Every Turn | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Hanayome no tameiki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1956 |
 | Shichinin no ani imōto | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Tama wa kudakezu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | New Women’s Dialogue | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Hahabue kobue | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Gojūen yokochō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Tokyo Gang | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | O Sorrowful White Snow of Mount Fuji | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | A Girl Who Delivers Happiness | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Naki warai jigoku gokuraku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Farewell Song | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1955 |
 | Haru no uzumaki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Moon Over the Ruined Castle | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Konna okusama mita koto nai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Messenger from the Moon | Ichiro Totsuka | Movie | 1954 |
| Konna abekku mita koto nai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 | |
 | The Story of Shunkin | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Konna bidanshi mita kotonai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Tree of Love | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Itsuki no komori uta | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Golden Demon | Tomiyama | Movie | 1954 |
 | A Certain Woman | Sadaichi Kimura | Movie | 1954 |
 | Kokoro no nichigetsu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Konna beppin mita koto nai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1954 |
 | Jūdai no yūwaku | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Haha no mizūmi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
| Red Camellia | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 | |
 | Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Brother and Sister | Kobata | Movie | 1953 |
 | New Enoshima Elegy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Koshō musuko | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Utau onna kengeki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Tokoharu jamono | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
| Gendai shojo | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 | |
 | Shinkon noroke bushi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1953 |
 | Kanojo no tokudane | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Her Secret | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Sugamo's Mothers | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | The Ataka Family | Soichi Ataka | Movie | 1952 |
 | Haha yamahiko | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1952 |
 | Kiri no yoru no kyōfu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1951 |
| Designated Criminal | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 | |
 | I Am Being Targeted | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1950 |
 | Town of Violence | Ozaki | Movie | 1950 |
| Haha tōdai | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 | |
| Aizenso | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 | |
 | Dai tokai no ushimitsudoki | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 |
 | Doburoku no Tatsu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1949 |
 | Ghost Tower | Tatsuo Tsuchiya | Movie | 1948 |
 | The Dead Beauty Incident | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 |
 | Sanmenkyō no kyōfu | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 |
| Utsukushiki hyō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1948 | |
| Dai ni no hōyō | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1947 | |
 | 現代インチキ物語 ど狸 | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |
 | Prize of Flesh | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |