Eiji Funakoshi Movies

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of...

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.

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

1954 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

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...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A dead lover returns as a ghost

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...

Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.

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...

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

In the ruins of postwar Osaka, performers and drifters gather in a rundown tenement known as "Geinin Mura." Osen, a kind-hearted seamstress, supports...

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

1962 Japanese movie