Eiji Funakoshi
10 titles
Filmography
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Blind Beast
(1969)Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan’s foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).
Fires on the Plain
(1959)
Gamera, the Giant Monster
(1965)The initial entry in the Gamera series was Daiei Studios' first successful attempt at making a massive scale kaiju movie. Hibernating under the Arctic, the turtle monster Gamera is awakened by an atomic bomb test. The behemoth creates chaos when it arrives in Japan and an ambitious plan must be hatched to try and stop the rampage.

Black Test Car
(1962)Follows the corporate espionage that transpires after the most powerful car companies in Japan unveil their current products.
Being Two Isn't Easy
(1962)An Actor's Revenge
(1963)A uniquely prolific and chameleonic figure of world cinema, Kon Ichikawa delivered a burst of stylistic bravado with this intricate tale of betrayal and retribution. Set in the cloistered world of nineteenth-century kabuki theater, the film charts a female impersonator’s attempts to avenge the deaths of his parents, who were driven to insanity and suicide by a trio of corrupt men. Ichikawa takes the conventions of melodrama and turns them on their head, bringing the hero’s fractured psyche to life in boldly experimental widescreen compositions infused with kaleidoscopic color, pop-art influences, and meticulous choreography. Anchored by a magnificently androgynous performance by Kazuo Hasegawa, reprising a role he had played on-screen three decades earlier, An Actor’s Revenge is an eye-popping examination of how the illusions of art intersect with life.

Afraid to Die
(1960)When Takeo, a young yakuza, is released from prison, he plans to cease any criminal activity. But escaping his troubled past isn't so easy.

Gamera vs. Guiron
(1969)When two boys are whisked off to planet Terra, Gamera must rescue them before space chicks feast on their brains and breed an army of Earth invaders.

Elegant Beast
(1962)A humble-seeming family is actually a bunch of cheats and embezzlers. One by one, visitors arrive at their door with their own agendas.