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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.
Eiji Funakoshi was born on 17 March 1923 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Fires on the Plain (1959), Gamera: The Giant Monster (1964) and Blind Beast (1969). He was married to Yumiko Hasegawa. He died on 17 March 2007 in Shizuoka, Japan.
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Mar 17, 2007 · Eiji Funakoshi (1923-2007) was a Japanese actor who won awards for his roles in Fires on the Plain and Blind Beast. He appeared in many films and TV shows, such as Gamera, the Giant Monster, The Makioka Sisters, and Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again.
Nov 14, 1995 · Eiji Funakoshi plays Tamura, a tubercular soldier abandoned by his unit in the Philippines, in Kon Ichikawa's 1954 film based on a novel by Shohei O-oka. The movie is a harrowing and poetic depiction of the horrors of war and the human will to survive.
Mar 12, 2007 · Eiji Funakoshi plays Tamura, a dying soldier in Kon Ichikawa's brutal adaptation of Shohei Ooka's novel. The film depicts the horrors of the final days of World War II in the Philippines, where Japanese soldiers scavenge for food and fight over corpses.
Actor Eiji Funakoshi died of a stroke at 10:57pm on March 17. It was his 84th birthday. Born Eijiro Funakoshi on March 17, 1923 in Tokyo, Eiji Funakoshi signed with the Daiei Motion Picture Company in 1947 and made his acting debut the following year with BEAUTIFUL ENEMY (Utsukushiki Teki).
Aug 24, 2021 · Famous for a series of artistic S & M-style photographs, Aki (Maki Midori) is kidnapped by a blind sculptor, Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), obsessed with her body who holds her captive in his warehouse studio.
