From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Eiji Funakoshi (  17 March 1923 - 17 March 2007) was a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Funakoshi , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.