Mitsu (Sakai Miki) meets Yoshioka (Watabe Atsuro) on Christmas and spends the night with him. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kei Kumai
Darkness in the Light / Nippon no kuroi natsu – Enzai (2001) Kei Kumai, Kiichi Nakai, Akira Terao, Naomi Hosokawa
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture) Read More »
The Sea and Poison / Umi to dokuyaku (1986) Kei Kumai, Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura
Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments. Read More »
Luminous Moss AKA Hikarigoke (1992) Kei Kumai, Rentarô Mikuni, Hisashi Igawa, Satoko Iwasaki
The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. Read More »
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Apart from Life (1970) Kei Kumai, Mizuho Suzuki, Hiroko Kino, Mugihito
Dr. Unan is asked to treat a young girl with A-bomb disease symptoms but her mother Read More »
Kurobe no taiyo / The Sands of Kurobe (1968) Kei Kumai, Toshirô Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Osamu Takizawa, Drama
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. Read More »