Where to watch Kei Kumai in the UK
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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 …
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- Sandakan No. 8 (1974) Director
- The Sea Is Watching (2002) Director
- The Sea and Poison (1986) Director
- The Long Darkness (1972) Director
- Willful Murder (1981) Director
- An Ocean to Cross (1980) Director
- The Sands of Kurobe (1968) Director
- Luminous Moss (1992) Director
- Hiroshima (1953) First Assistant Director
- Death of a Tea Master (1989) Director
- Deep River (1995) Screenplay
- Love and Faith (1978) Director
- A Chain of Islands (1965) Director
- To Love (1997) Director
- The Call of the Foghorn (1960) Writer
- Rise, Fair Sun (1973) Director
- The Long Death (1964) Screenplay
- Shikibu monogatari (1990) Director
- Pacific Porters (1961) Screenplay
- Love in Ginza (1962) Screenplay
- Cape of the North (1976) Director
- The Cards Will Tell (1960) Screenplay
- Hitoribotchi no futari daga (1962) Screenplay
- Sun and Stars (1962) Screenplay
- Darkness in the Light (2001) Director
- Wounded Beast (1959) Screenplay
- Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962) Screenplay
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