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Eiji Funakoshi
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''. Biography Born Eijirō Funakoshi on 17 March 1923, in Tokyo, Eiji Funakoshi signed up for the Daiei Motion Picture Company in 1947 and made his acting debut the following year with ''Beautiful Enemy''. In a career that spanned three decades Funakoshi starred in a variety of genres and worked for directors Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Mikio Naruse, Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzo Masumura. Funakoshi was a favorite actor of internationally renowned director Kon Ichikawa. Perhaps their most notable film was the World War II drama '' Fires on the Plain'' (Nobi, 1959). Funakoshi played the lead role of Imperial Army Private Tamura, a soldier stationed on Leyte Island in the Philippines. '' Fires on the Plain'' won awards in Japan and overseas, including prizes for Kon Ichikawa from the Blue Ribbon in Japan and the Locarno Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuko Otowa
was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994. A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. After starring in Kaneto Shindo's '' Story of a Beloved Wife'', she became the director's mistress and appeared in nearly all of his following films. She finally married him in 1977, after his previous wife divorced him. Although closely associated with Shindo's films, with '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'' and '' Onibaba'' being among the most well-known, Otowa also worked for noted directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Heinosuke Gosho, Keisuke Kinoshita and Nagisa Ōshima. Devoted to her profession, she frequently wrote and lectured on the art of film acting. In 1995, she was posthumously awarded as best actress in a supporting role at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for ''A Last Note'', having been diagnosed with terminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiichirō Funakoshi
is a Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and presenter. He is represented with Horipro. He graduated from Nihon University Mishima High School and Nihon University College of Arts Film Department (in which he was classmates with Hiroyuki Sanada). His father was Eiji Funakoshi, who was also an actor, and his mother was Yumiko Hasegawa. His great uncle was Kazuo Hasegawa (his wife Shige Iijima was Eiichiro's grandmother and their daughter was Matsu Iijima). His uncle was Ken Mishima (real name: Eitaro Funakoshi). His former wife is actress Kazuyo Matsui. His mother's great-grandfather was Jiro Iijima, founder of the Iijima Association, who formed a temporary name in railway construction. His sister was Yoko Hirano. Filmography Serial dramas Two hour dramas ; Nippon TV ; TV Asahi ; Tokyo Broadcasting System ; TV Tokyo ; Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiroi Kyotō
is a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1966 and then five times as a television series in 1967, 1978, 1990, 2003, and 2019. The 1966 film was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. Summary The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both associate professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research. Cast (1966 film) Cast * Jiro Tamiya - Goro Zaizen *Eijirō Tōno - Professor Azuma * Takahiro Tamura - Shuji Satomi * Eitaro Ozawa - Professor Ugai *Eiji Funakoshi - Professor Kikukawa * Osamu Takizawa - Professor Funao * Kenjiro Ishiyama - Mataichi Zaizen * Yoshi Katō - Professor Ōkouchi *Teruko Kishi - Masako *Mayumi Ogawa - Keiko Hanamori *Shiho Fujimura - Saeko * Toshio Takahara - Tsuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamera (film)
is a 1965 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, with special effects by Yonesaburo Tsukiji. Produced and distributed by Daiei Film, it is the first film in the ''Gamera'' franchise and the Shōwa era. The film stars Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, and Junichiro Yamashita. In the film, authorities deal with the attacks of Gamera, a giant prehistoric turtle unleashed in the Arctic by an atomic bomb. The success of '' The Birds'' and Toho's ''Godzilla'' films influenced studio head Masaichi Nagata to produce a similar film. In 1964, Daiei attempted to produce '' Nezura'', with Yuasa directing. However, the project was shut down by the health department, since the project was to have used dozens of live rats. Nagata then conceived Gamera to replace ''Nezura'' on the schedule. Due to a low budget and tight schedule, Yuasa was forced to use outdated equipment, faulty props, and faced belittlement from colleagues. Yuasa was determined to complete the film with Daiei's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manji (film)
is the title of several Japanese films based on the Japanese novel ''Quicksand (Tanizaki novel), Quicksand'' written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in 1928. The theme is sexual excess, and includes homosexuality between women. It was filmed in 1964, 1983, 1998 and 2006 in Japan. Story Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationship develops and starts to affect and involve their partners. 1964 film ;Cast and staff *Ayako Wakao as Mitsuko Tokumitsu *Kyōko Kishida as Sonoko Kakiuchi *Eiji Funakoshi as Kotaro Kakiuchi *Yūsuke Kawazu as Eijirō Watanuki *director: Yasuzo Masumura *writer: Kaneto Shindō 1983 version ;Cast and staff *Kanako Higuchi as Mitsuko Sido *Haruna Takase as Sonoko Kakiuchi *Yoshio Harada as Kotaro Kakiuchi *director: Hiroto Yokoyama 1998 version ;Cast and staff *Kaori Sakagami as Sonoko *Tomoko Mayumi as Mitsuko *Sei Hiraizumi as Kotaro Kikiuchi *Director: Mitsunori Hattori 2006 version ;Cast and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Actor's Revenge
, also known as ''Revenge of a Kabuki Actor'', is a 1963 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa, based on a novel by Otokichi Mikami. Plot Japan in the late Edo period: Three men — Sansai Dobe, Kawaguchiya and Hiromiya — are responsible for the suicide of seven-year-old Yukitarō's mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura, the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles, taking the stage name Yukinojō. He wears women's clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on. Twenty years later, the troupe pays a visit to Edo, where the men responsible for his parents' deaths now live. Yukinojō brings about their deaths, then, having achieved his goal, and apparently overcome by the death of an innocent woman who was part of his schemes but whom he became fond of, retires from the stage and disappears. The events are coolly observed and sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Graceful Brute
is a 1962 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and written by Kaneto Shindō. Plot The family of ex-naval officer Tokizo Maeda lives in a small urban concrete block apartment, always quick at hiding their belongings when the situation asks for a humble appearance. While daughter Tomoko, mistress (at her father's instruction) of a famous bestselling writer, won't stop borrowing money from her patron for the family, son Minoru, signed to a music talent agency, constantly embezzles the company's assets. Father and son both have their very own plans for the money: Tokizo invests in one military project after another, Minoru, to his father's consternation, spends it on his lover Yukie, none other than his agency's bookkeeper. When Yukie quits her job, using the occasion to end the liaison with Minoru, it turns out that she also had affairs with the company boss and the tax officer in charge, using the donations she received to finance her own hotel. Cast * Aya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Being Two Isn't Easy
is a 1962 color Japanese comedy film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was Japan's submission to the 35th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Style Ichikawa utilized the screen personas of popular stars Fujiko Yamamoto (glamorous, restrained) and Eiji Funakoshi (hapless, self-conscious) to make the child's independence and frequent endangerment believable. The director contrasts Chiyo's well-coiffed, reactive approach to motherhood by shooting Misako Watanabe as her sister-in-law in a sensuous, intimate manner as she bathes her own newborn. Cast * Hiro Suzuki as Taro, the baby * Eiji Funakoshi as Goro, the father * Fujiko Yamamoto as Chiyo, the mother * Kumeko Urabe as Ino, grandmother * Misako Watanabe as Setsuko, the aunt * Masako Kyôzuka as Chiyo's sister * Mantarō Ushio as Laundry Man * Kyōko Kishida as Chiyo's Friend * Shirô Ôtsuji a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Dark Women
''Ten Dark Women'' (, literally "ten black women") is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. Plot A married television executive has many mistresses. Nine of the mistresses and his wife band together and plan to kill him. His wife tells him they are planning to kill him and they fake his death at a meeting of all ten women using a pistol loaded with blanks and a tomato. The other women tell her that they were not really serious about killing him and run away. One of the women, Miwako, commits suicide, and her ghost comes back to view the proceedings. Then they find out that he is not really dead, and they decide to kill him again. His wife divorces him and one of the other women takes him on. Cast * Eiji Funakoshi as Matsukichi * Keiko Kishi * Tamao Nakamura * Fujiko Yamamoto * Juzo Itami * Hajime Hana was a Japanese actor. He was the leader of the comic jazz band The Crazy Cats, which featured such talent as Hitoshi Ueki and Kei Tani, and which starred in a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokyo (film)
is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa and Yasuzo Masumura. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot This is a series of three stories revolving around women. The first story is about a young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. She has what seems like a good plan for a strong financial future; she is investing in a company on the one hand, and on the other, taking action to snare the son of the company's owner in marriage. In the second story, a young woman is employed by a real estate agent in order to convince male clients to invest in worthless property, usually by bathing with them. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no financial worries. But when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison. This causes trouble for her in family and society, but she ignores them despite the pressure. Cast ;Episode 1 (directed by Yasuzo Masumura) * Ayako Wakao - Kimi * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chūshingura
is the title given to fictionalized accounts in Japanese literature, theater, and film that relate to the historical incident involving the forty-seven ''rōnin'' and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori. Including the early , the story has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, television shows and other media. With ten different television productions in the years 1997–2007 alone, ''Chūshingura'' ranks among the most familiar of all historical stories in Japan. Historical events The historical basis for the narrative begins in 1701. The ruling ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Tsunayoshi placed Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori, the ''daimyō'' of Akō, in charge of a reception of envoys from the Imperial Court in Kyoto. He also appointed the protocol official (''kōke'') Kira Kōzuke-no-suke Yoshinaka to instruct Asano in the ceremonies. On the day of the reception, at Edo Castle, Asano drew his short sword and attempted to kill Kira. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 Film)
is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan. Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan. Plot The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyō (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After carefully planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on their sworn enemy's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they themselves would be forced to share their Lord's fate to atone for their crime. Cast * Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio) * Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki * Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano * Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano * Machiko Kyō as Orui * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in * Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
