Eiji Funakoshi: Eiji Funakoshi. Actor: Fires on the Plain. Eiji Funakoshi was born on 17 March 1923 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Fires on the Plain (1959), An Actor's Revenge (1963) and Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965). He was married to Yumiko Hasegawa. He died on 17 March 2007 in Shizuoka, Japan.