Funakoshi Eiji

[Aaron Gerow]

Sanspo reports that the actor Funakoshi Eiji died on the 17th of a 
cerebral infarction. He was 84.

Funakoshi graduated from Senshu University and joined the Daiei Studios 
in 1947. He appeared in a large variety of films, with the JMDB listing 
169 to his name, but he is most known for playing the lead in Ichikawa 
Kon's Nobi (Fires on the Plain). He appeared in many Ichikawa films, 
such as Man'in denshi, Watashi wa nisai, Kuroi junin no onna, Hakai, 
and An Actor's Revenge, as well as in many by Masumura Yasuzo (Manji, 
Moju, Karakkaze yaro, Nise daigakusei), Yamamoto Satsuo and Yoshimura 
Kosaburo. Other films include Kawashima Yuzo's Shitoyakana kemono and 
the first Gamera movie. From the 1970s on, he appeared mostly on TV. He 
married the actress Hasegawa Yumiko, who was the niece of Hasegawa 
Kazuo. Their son, Funakoshi Eiichiro, is also an actor.

Aaron Gerow
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Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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