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) - Director · WriterLuminous Moss (1992) - Director · WriterApart from Life (1970) - Director · WriterLove in Ginza (1962) - ScreenplayShikibu monogatari (1990) - Director · ScreenplayWhat's a Director? (2006)