Kei Kumai — Playwright (12)
Wounded Beast (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
傷つける野獣
other title: 傷つける野獣
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal.
Rise, Fair Sun (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
朝やけの詩
director: Kei Kumai actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Kinya Kitaoji
other title: La Chanson de l'aube / 朝やけの詩
A pioneer farmer's stubborn dream of building Japan's greatest ranch is put to the test when a leisure resort company sets its sights on his village's land.
To Love (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
愛する
director: Kei Kumai actor: Miki Sakai / Atsuro Watabe
other title: Aimer / 愛する
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
The Long Death (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
帝銀事件 死刑囚
director: Kei Kumai actor: Kinzō Shin / Taketoshi Naitō
other title: La Longue Mort / 帝銀事件 死刑囚
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
Darkness in the Light (2001) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
日本の黒い夏 [冤enzai罪]
director: Kei Kumai actor: Kiichi Nakai / Akira Terao
other title: L'Été noir au Japon / 日本の黒い夏 [冤enzai罪]
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 suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.
A Chain of Islands (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本列島
director: Kei Kumai actor: Jūkichi Uno / Izumi Ashikawa
other title: L'Archipel du Japon / 日本列島
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
Love in Ginza (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
銀座の恋の物語
other title: 銀座の恋の物語
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
The Sands of Kurobe (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
黒部の太陽
other title: Batalha no Abismo / Le Soleil de Kurobe
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 crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.