Kei Kumai Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kei Kumai Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kei Kumai (熊井 å•", Kumai Kei, June 1, 1930 â€" May 23, 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 rettÅ , in 1965. His 1972 film Shinobu

Kawa was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. His

1974 film Rise, Fair Sun was entered into the 24th Berlin

International Film Festival.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. Kinuyo Tanaka won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin

International Film Festival for her performance. The film was

nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy

Awards.Kumai's follow-up film was 1976's 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. His 1986 film

The Sea and Poison won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the

37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1992, his film Luminous

Moss was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Kei Kumai Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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