Eiji Funakoshi Movies

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

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

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

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...

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...

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 beautiful dancer who lost her mother and was raised abroad searches for her long-lost father in the homeland she has always longed for.

A brutal murder in the dead of night. While the man who left bloody fingerprints and footprints screams he is innocent, the intelligent criminal,...

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

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...

Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true talent in making excellent, tasty and somewhat spicy...

A comedy about newlyweds.

A rakugo storyteller who makes people laugh falls in love with his master’s daughter.

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...

Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of...

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

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named...