Writing

Kazuo Funahashi

Born — Died

1919-07-02 — 2006-01-15

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Hahabue kobue poster
NR

Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.

Hahabue kobue

1955

Ken poster
7.7

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

Ken

1964

No artwork available
NR

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.

Byakuran kōran

1952

Portrait of Madame Yuki poster
6.8

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Portrait of Madame Yuki

1950

The Sea of Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sea of Beauty

1950

The Chop Professor poster
8.0

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...

The Chop Professor

1956

Behind the camera

Hahabue kobue poster
NR

Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.

Hahabue kobue

1955

Ken poster
7.7

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

Ken

1964

No artwork available
NR

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.

Byakuran kōran

1952

Portrait of Madame Yuki poster
6.8

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Portrait of Madame Yuki

1950

The Sea of Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sea of Beauty

1950

The Chop Professor poster
8.0

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...

The Chop Professor

1956

The Flower and the Angry Waves poster
7.2

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.

The Flower and the Angry Waves

1964

Kanojo no tokudane poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanojo no tokudane

1952

The Temple of Wild Geese poster
6.5

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.

The Temple of Wild Geese

1962

Four Hours of Terror poster
6.3

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

Four Hours of Terror

1959

Kisses poster
6.8

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.

Kisses

1957

Black Test Car poster
7.1

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Black Test Car

1962

Every Wife Cannot Stand Still poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Every Wife Cannot Stand Still

1955

Dare ni koisen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dare ni koisen

1948

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Unmei no koyomi

1948

Express Train poster
6.0

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.

Express Train

1967

Listen to the Voices of the Sea poster
7.5

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

1950

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kare to kanojo wa iku

1946

Etajima, the Naval Academy poster
NR

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

Etajima, the Naval Academy

1959

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu poster
NR

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kenrantaru fukushū

1946

The Rainbow-Colored Flower poster
1.0

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

1950

Black Weapon poster
NR

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

Black Weapon

1964

The Pit of Death poster
9.0

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.

The Pit of Death

1968

The Big Scoop: The Third Woman poster
NR

A young woman's letter sent to the newspaper reveals the truth about the murder case two years ago. The first work depicting the fighting spirit of a talented young reporter.

The Big Scoop: The Third Woman

1959

The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight poster
NR

What starts as a simple request for correction of a newspaper article uncovers a corruption case hidden behind what seemed like an ordinary traffic accident.

The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight

1959

Yosakoi Journey poster
8.0

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.

Yosakoi Journey

1969

Topsy-Turvy Journey poster
10.0

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

Topsy-Turvy Journey

1969

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again

1966

The Frolic of the Beasts poster
9.0

Young student Koji attacks literary critic Ippei out of a desperate love for Ippei's neglected wife, Yuko. Following his release from prison, the three are bound together in a tense and destructive co-existence.

The Frolic of the Beasts

1964

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

Dare yori mo kimi o aisu

1960

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

Tokyo Eyes poster
NR

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.

Tokyo Eyes

1958

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

1966

Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O. poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O.

1965

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind poster
NR

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

1961

Night Trap poster
NR

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down four men in the victim's life, one of whom she suspects may be the real murderer, and systematically destroys them. In the end, her obsession becomes madness and she has ruined her own life along with her victims' lives to save her philandering husband.

Night Trap

1967

大安旅行 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大安旅行

1968

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

1968