Kei Kumai
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Kei Kumai (熊井啓?) (1 June 1930 - 23 May 2007) was a Japanese movie director. After his studies in literature he worked as director's assistant.
Perhaps his best-known film is Sandakan No. 8, which received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II. Kumai's follow-up film was 1976's Kita no misaki (Cape of North), starring French actress Claude Jade as a Swiss nun who falls in love with a Japanese engineer on a trip from Marseilles to Yokohama.
Other works include Ocean to Cross, Death of a Tea Master starring Toshiro Mifune as Sen no Rikyū (Silver Lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival)[1] and the 2002 film The Sea Is Watching, based on Akira Kurosawa's last script.
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- Kei Kumai at the IMDb
- 熊井啓 (Kei Kumai) (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
