Funakoshi Eiji

[Li Hoo Cheong]

The KineJun actor biography gives 17 March 1923 as Eiji's date of birth.
This means that he died on his 84th birthday.  Ozu died on his 60th
birthday.  I wonder which Japanese performer or director shared their same
fate.

HC Li

Aaron Gerow wrote:

> 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.
>
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