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Eiji Funakoshi

Name in Native Language: "船越英二" (Japanese/JA)
Actor | * 03/17/1923 († 84, 03/17/2007) | Tokyo (Japan)
Eiji Funakoshi (船越 英二, Funakoshi Eiji, 17 March 1923 – 17 March 2007) was a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Action

Known for these Movies & Shows

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists’ model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obs ...

Blind Beast

NC-17

1969 | 3.4/5 | 1h 24min
Drama, Horror
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A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to th ...

Gamera, the Giant Monster

Certification unknown

1965 | 3.1/5 | 1h 19min
Action, Horror, Science Fiction
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In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation. ...

Fires on the Plain

Certification unknown

1959 | 3.8/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, War
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Awards & Nominations for Eiji Funakoshi

Medal With Purple Ribbon Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor
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Movies with Eiji Funakoshi as Actor(78)

1977 Tree of Youth
as Hyodo1975 Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1969 The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
as Michio1969 Blind Beast
as Dr. Shiga1969 Gamera vs. Guiron
1969 The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
as Kikuji's father1969 Thousand Cranes
as Goro Mizuike1968 The Night before Pearl Harbor
as Fumio Nishino1968 The Pit of Death
1967 When the Cookie Crumbles
as Shinkichi Yûki1967 The Sisters and I
as Keizo1966 The Freezing Point
as Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow1966 The Little Runaway
1966 The Great White Tower
as Dr. Hidaka1966 Gammera the Invincible
1965 The Forest of No Escape
as Dr. Hidaka1965 Gamera, the Giant Monster
as Masayoshi Zaitsu1964 Superexpress
1964 Sweet Seventeen
1964 The Enforcer
as Kazuo Arima1964 A Public Benefactor
as Fugu1964 Fools at Work
as Kotaro Kakiuchi1964 Manji
as Heima Kadokura1963 An Actor's Revenge
1963 The Money Dance
as Yaju1963 Rabble Tactics
as Keinoshin Kazama1962 The Broken Commandment
as Aoyagi1962 Stolen Pleasure
as Goro1962 Being Two Isn't Easy
as Kimio Hiraki1962 Black Test Car
as Menosuke1962 Her Hidden Past
1962 Their Legacy
as Eisaku Kamiya, the tax collector1962 The Graceful Brute
as Kaze1961 Ten Black Women
1961 Marriageable Age
as Toku no Ichi / Tatsu no Ichi1961 The Old Temple Well
1961 A Design for Dying
1961 A Lustful Man
1960 セクシー・サイン　好き好き好き
as Jōji Kawai1960 Fool's Love
as Kyosuke Kuniyuki1960 The False Student
as Writer Gomu1960 The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960 A Woman's Testament
as Kihei1960 Bonchi
as Futetsu (Fuketsu Aishinkakura)1960 The Wandering Princess
as Tosaku Yakata / Toku Ogata1960 Patterns of Love
as Susumu Aikawa1960 Afraid to Die
1959 Jirocho Fuji
as Tamura1959 Fires on the Plain
1959 The Cast-Off
1959 The Makioka Sisters
1959 The Most Valuable Madam
as Torao Ichige1959 Goodbye, Hello
1958 The Ladder of Success
1958 The Lowest Man
1958 Tainted Flowers
as Shuichi Ema1958 Disobedience
1958 Musume no boken
as Tsunanori Uesugi1958 The Loyal 47 Ronin
1957 The Betrothed
as Koisuke Sengi1957 Hole in One
as Shuji1957 Night Butterflies
as Yasuhiko Shima1957 Warm Current
as Yamano1957 Dancing Girl
1957 Advance Patrol
1957 スタジオはてんやわんや
as Tadao1956 The Sentimental Idiot
1956 Tokyo Crime Map
as Shinpachiro Kasahara1956 Bridge of Japan
1955 Farewell Song
1955 A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as Tomiyama1954 The Golden Demon
as Kobata1953 Brother and Sister
1953 続々十代の性典
as Soichi Ataka1952 The Ataka Family
1952 母山彦
as Ozaki1950 Street of Violence
as Tatsuo Tsuchiya1948 Ghost Tower

Citizenship: Japan
Born: Saturday, 03/17 1923 (March) in Tokyo (Japan)
Died: Saturday, 03/17 2007 (March) in Shizuoka (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Educated at: Senshu University
Spouses (current/former): Yumiko Hasegawa
Children: Eiichirō Funakoshi, Yoko Hirano
Other names for Eiji Funakoshi (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Фунакоси Эйдзи"
"船越 英二"
"Эйдзи Фунакоси"
"船越英二"
"ふなこし えいじ" (Kana/Japanese)
Eiji Funakoshi frequently works together with these people:
Ayako Wakao (29x, Actress)
Masaichi Nagata (29x, Crew)
Tatsuji Nakashizu (21x, Crew)
Machiko Kyō (20x, Actress)
Yasuzō Masumura (19x, Crew)
Kon Ichikawa (18x, Crew)
Bontarō Miake (18x, Actor)
Jun Negami (16x, Actor)
Mantarō Ushio (15x, Actor)
Fujiko Yamamoto (14x, Actress)
Kenji Oyama (14x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:309271, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024