Kei Kumai
Directing · Director · Writer · First Assistant Director
Born Jun 1, 1930 · Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Active 1953–2007
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.
Filmography
Hiroshima (1953) — First Assistant DirectorSandakan No. 8 (1974) — Director · WriterRise, Fair Sun (1973) — Director · WriterPacific Porters (1961) — ScreenplayThe Sea and Poison (1986) — Director · ScreenplayCape of the North (1976) — Director · ScreenplayAn Ocean to Cross (1980) — DirectorThe Long Death (1964) — Screenplay · DirectorThe Call of the Foghorn (1960) — WriterWillful Murder (1981) — DirectorThe Sea Is Watching (2002) — Director · ScreenplayThe Long Darkness (1972) — Director · WriterDeep River (1995) — Screenplay · DirectorThe Sands of Kurobe (1968) — Director · ScreenplayA Chain of Islands (1965) — Director · ScreenplayDeath of a Tea Master (1989) — DirectorLove and Faith (1978) — DirectorDarkness in the Light (2001) — Director · ScreenplayTo Love (1997) — Writer · DirectorLuminous Moss (1992) — Writer · DirectorApart from Life (1970) — Writer · DirectorLove in Ginza (1962) — ScreenplayShikibu monogatari (1990) — Director · ScreenplayWhat's a Director? (2006)