Eiji Funakoshi’s Typical Vibe
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Eiji Funakoshi has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
Recurring themes

Jigoku
1960
Horror · Drama

The Damned
1969
Drama · History

The Masque of the Red Death
1964
Drama · Horror

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
Drama

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
Horror

Repulsion
1965
Drama · Thriller

The Platform 2
2024
Science Fiction · Horror

Possessor
2020
Horror · Thriller

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Dir. Kon Ichikawa · With Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
Dir. Yasuzō Masumura · With Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Dir. Noriaki Yuasa · With Eiji Funakoshi, Junichiro Yamashita, Michiko Sugata
Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.
Dir. Noriaki Yuasa · With Nobuhiro Kajima, Christopher Murphy, Miyuki Akiyama
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