Eiji Funakoshi Movies

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

1962 Japanese movie

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Takeshi, bound to be an outlaw youth, boards at the home of his female schoolmate who works at the family restaurant in devil-may-care Akasaka.

1962 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

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

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...

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

Comedy drama film

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.