Screenplay: Kei Kumai
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kei Kumai. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Sandakan 8
1974 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yôko Takahashi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Tanaka
Plot An old woman tells her heartrending story of her experience as a "karayukisan," the young Japanese women sent to southeast Asia to pay off their family debts by working as...
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Deep River
1995 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Eiji Okuda · Hisashi Igawa · Kyôko Kagawa
Plot Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to...
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A Chain of Islands
1965 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Jûkichi Uno · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani · Mizuho Suzuki
Plot The appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.
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Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison)
1986 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida
Plot Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
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Muteki ga ore o yondeiru
1960 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan
Direction Tokujirô Yamazaki
Cast Keiichirô Akagi · Izumi Ashikawa · Ryoji Hayama · Kô Nishimura
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Apart from Life
1970 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara
Plot A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people...
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Hikarigoke (Luminous Moss, Shiny Moss)
1992 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hisashi Igawa · Satoko Iwasaki · Taketoshi Naitô
Plot The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this understated drama, a celebrated writer is being shown...
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The Long Darkness
1972 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin
Plot 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.
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Rise, Fair Sun
1973 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Saburi · Kinya Kitaoji
Plot 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.
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Darkness in the Light
2001 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Kiichi Nakai · Akira Terao · Naomi Hosokawa · Nagiko Tono
Plot 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...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1968 · Movie · 196 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Osamu Takizawa · Takashi Shimura
Plot 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. The tunnel...
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Mt. Aso's Passions
1990 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Eiji Okuda · Keiko Kishi · Kyôko Kagawa · Mieko Harada
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The Love Story of Ginza
1962 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan
Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Chiemi Eri · Jerry Fujio
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Teigin jiken: Shikeishû
1964 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Kinzo Shin · Yumi Takano · Keiko Yanagawa · Mizuho Suzuki
Plot 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...
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To Love
1997 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Miki Sakai · Atsuro Watabe · Jô Shishido · Masumi Okada
Plot Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.
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