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Kei Kumai (熊井 啓, Kumai Kei, 1 June 1930 – 23 May 2007) was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he began work as a director's assistant.
He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film, Nihon rettō, in 1965.[2] His 1972 film Shinobu Kawa was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.[3] His 1973 film Rise, Fair Sun was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
Sandakan No. 8 received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards.
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17 October 1986
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.
07 November 1981
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns.
16 January 1960
A 1960 crime film
26 January 1980
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them.
26 May 1965
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life.
03 June 1978
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan.
03 November 1962
1962 Japanese movie
25 May 1972
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.
04 October 1997
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her.
04 March 1962
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar.
07 October 1989
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
12 April 1964
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money.
01 April 1959
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal.
10 November 1973
A 1973 musical film released by Toho-Towa, directed by Masanori Hata, Shôhei lImamura, Kei Kumai, Jun'ya Satô, Isao Takahata, Takeshi Kitano & Akira Kurosawa.
25 April 1992
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
04 November 2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
03 April 1976
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
30 January 1970
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
14 January 1962
1962 Japanese movie
01 March 1968
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam.
07 October 1953
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
02 November 1974
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No.
17 February 2001
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.
27 July 2002
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
10 September 1961
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
01 April 1995
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
09 July 1960
A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide.
06 October 1990
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident.
24 February 1963
Set on a luxury ship sailing through the Far East, the film depicts the affection of young boys for a young girl traveling alone and the exchange of youthful feelings across borders.
27 October 1973
Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful.
01 July 1962
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
27 January 1961
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication.
