Eiji Funakoshi Movies

A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.

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.

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

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

1956 Daiei movie

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

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

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...

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

1959 Japanese movie

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.