Eiji Funakoshi

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.

Career Overview

Eiji Funakoshi has 173 screen credits in a career dating back to 1947. Their work spans 6 cinematic universes — most prominently The Woman Gambler Collection with 2 titles. Signature works include Gamera, the Giant Monster, Naki warai jigoku gokuraku, Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

173

Birth Date

1923-03-17 00:00:00

Birth Place

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Known For

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  Gamera, the Giant Monster
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  Naki warai jigoku gokuraku
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  Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse
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  Blind Beast
• 

  Teinen Taishoku
• 

  Fires on the Plain

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 6 universes

• The Woman Gambler Collection (2 titles)
• Gamera (Showa) Collection (2 titles)
• Kuro no Bōsō Series (2 titles)
• Black Series (2 titles)
• Otoko wa Tsurai yo (1 titles)
• Tora-san Series (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Jun Hamamura (2 collaborations)
• Jutarō Hōjō (2 collaborations)
• Tetsurō Takeuchi (2 collaborations)
• Michiko Sugata (1 collaborations)
• Harumi Kiritachi (1 collaborations)
• Yoshirō Kitahara (1 collaborations)
• Bokuzen Hidari (1 collaborations)
• Fumiko Murata (1 collaborations)
• Yoshio Yoshida (1 collaborations)
• Kenji Oyama (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (173 credits)

  • 現代インチキ物語　ど狸

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Tree of Youth

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Onna no Katei

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

    兵头谦次郎

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • 新・与太郎戦記

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Woman Gambler's Trump Card

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Thousand Cranes

    Kikuji's father

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Gamera vs. Guiron

    Dr. Shiga

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Blind Beast

    Michio

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Pit of Death

    Fumio Nishino

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The Night before Pearl Harbor

    Goro Mizuike

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The Diary of a Sex Counsellor

    Koji Negishi

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • When the Cookie Crumbles

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Sisters and I

    Shinkichi Yûki

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Ambassador Ramen

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Night Trap

    Shintaro Baba

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Little Runaway

    Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Gammera the Invincible

    Dr. Hidaka

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Great White Tower

    Professor Noboru Kikukawa

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Freezing Point

    Keizo

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Gamera, the Giant Monster

    Dr. Hidaka

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • While Yet a Wife

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Man Who Killed Six Women

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • I'll Cry Alone

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Forest of No Escape

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Sweet Seventeen

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Enforcer

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Superexpress

    Masayoshi Zaitsu

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Green Fruit

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Manji

    Kotaro Kakiuchi

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • The Money Dance

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • A Public Benefactor

    Kazuo Arima

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Fools at Work

    Fugu

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

    Yukichi Fukuzawa

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Rabble Tactics

    Yaju

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Red Water

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • When Women Lie

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Teinen Taishoku

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • An Actor's Revenge

    Heima Kadokura

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Elegant Beast

    Eisaku Kamiya

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Being Two Isn't Easy

    Goro

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Otoko to onna no sei no naka

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Venus' Tear

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Black Test Car

    Kimio Hiraki

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Broken Commandment

    Keinoshin Kazama

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Eriko

    Sobei Nodera

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Stolen Pleasure

    Aoyagi

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Her Hidden Past

    Menosuke

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Aru kankei

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Their Legacy

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Wakai yatsura no kaidan

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Prize of Flesh

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Old Temple Well

    Toku no Ichi / Tatsu no Ichi

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • A Design for Dying

    Hideo Sone

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Ten Women in Black

    Kaze

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • A Lustful Man

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Shin fūfu dokuhon ren'ai-byō kanja

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Marriageable Age

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Legendary Hell

    Naminosuke

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The False Student

    Kyosuke Kuniyuki

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Beloved Image

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Woman Who Touched Legs

    Writer Gomu

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Yoru wa usotsuki

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Patterns of Love

    Tosaku Yakata / Toku Ogata

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Victory and Defeat

    Ryusuke Suma

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Fool's Love

    Jōji Kawai

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Bonchi

    Kihei

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Afraid to Die

    Susumu Aikawa

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Wandering Princess

    Futetsu / Fuketsu Aishinkakura

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • A Woman's Testament

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Grave Tells All

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Fires on the Plain

    Tamura

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Telephone Rings in the Evening

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Jirocho Fuji

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Cast-Off

    Itazaki

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Person I Chose

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Paper Pigeon

    Makimura

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Jōen

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Most Valuable Wife

    Ichiro Mihara

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Makioka Sisters

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Goodbye, Hello

    Torao Ichige

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Disobedience

    Shuichi Ema

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Musume no boken

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Accomplice

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • The Ladder of Success

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Hey, Nakamura-kun

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • The Lowest Man

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • The Women Divers

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Tainted Flowers

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Ôsaka no onna

    Yonetaro Mikami

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • The Loyal 47 Ronin

    Tsunanori Uesugi

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Mother

    Hiroshi Takayama

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Tokyo Eyes

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Advance Patrol

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Warm Current

    Yasuhiko Shima

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Hole in One

    Koisuke Sengi

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Betrothed

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Night Butterflies

    Shuji

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Crowded Train

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Morning Whistling

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Dancing Girl

    Yamano

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Daiei Studio is Bustling

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Yonjū-hassai no teikō

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Bridge of Japan

    Shinpachiro Kasahara

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Asashio yushio

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Spark

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • The Sentimental Idiot

    Tadao

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Genkin no negoto

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Asakusa Lights

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Tokyo Crime Map

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • A Rainbow at Every Turn

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Hanayome no tameiki

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Shichinin no ani imōto

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Tama wa kudakezu

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • New Women’s Dialogue

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Hahabue kobue

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Gojūen yokochō

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Tokyo Gang

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • O Sorrowful White Snow of Mount Fuji

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • A Girl Who Delivers Happiness

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Naki warai jigoku gokuraku

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Farewell Song

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Koi no yakyūken: Kōiu guai ni shiyashi yanse

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Haru no uzumaki

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Moon Over the Ruined Castle

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Konna okusama mita koto nai

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Messenger from the Moon

    Ichiro Totsuka

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Konna abekku mita koto nai

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Story of Shunkin

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Konna bidanshi mita kotonai

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Tree of Love

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Itsuki no komori uta

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • The Golden Demon

    Tomiyama

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • A Certain Woman

    Sadaichi Kimura

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Kokoro no nichigetsu

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Konna beppin mita koto nai

    actor

    actors
    1954
  • Jūdai no yūwaku

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Haha no mizūmi

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Red Camellia

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Brother and Sister

    Kobata

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • New Enoshima Elegy

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Koshō musuko

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Utau onna kengeki

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Tokoharu jamono

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Gendai shojo

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Shinkon noroke bushi

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Kanojo no tokudane

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Her Secret

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Sugamo's Mothers

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • The Ataka Family

    Soichi Ataka

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Haha yamahiko

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Kiri no yoru no kyōfu

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • Designated Criminal

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • I Am Being Targeted

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Town of Violence

    Ozaki

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Haha tōdai

    actor

    actors
    1949
  • Aizenso

    actor

    actors
    1949
  • Dai tokai no ushimitsudoki

    actor

    actors
    1949
  • Doburoku no Tatsu

    actor

    actors
    1949
  • Ghost Tower

    Tatsuo Tsuchiya

    actor

    actors
    1948
  • The Dead Beauty Incident

    actor

    actors
    1948
  • Sanmenkyō no kyōfu

    actor

    actors
    1948
  • Utsukushiki hyō

    actor

    actors
    1948
  • Dai ni no hōyō

    actor

    actors
    1947