Eiji Funakoshi Movies

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

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.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage....

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

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

1956 Daiei movie

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

1954 Japanese movie

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

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...