Eiji Funakoshi Movies

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

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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

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

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Comedy drama film

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.