Eiji Funakoshi — Actor (35)
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Disobedience (1958) IMDb TMDB
親不孝通り
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: 親不孝通り
A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
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The Cast-Off (1959) IMDb TMDB
氾濫
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shin Saburi / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 氾濫
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 world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960) IMDb TMDB
足にさわった女
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Machiko Kyō / Hajime Hana …
other title: 足にさわった女
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 story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
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Superexpress (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
黒の超特急
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yukiko Fuji …
other title: Le Train super-express noir / 黒の超特急 …
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 automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
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Brother and Sister (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
あにいもうと
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Machiko Kyō / Masayuki Mori …
other title: Frère aîné, sœur cadette / Hermano y hermana …
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 will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
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A Woman's Testament (1960)
女経
director: Kon Ichikawa / Yasuzō Masumura … actor: Ayako Wakao / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 女経 / Jokyo …
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
最高殊勲夫人
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Hiroshi Kawaguchi …
other title: 最高殊勲夫人
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...