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Fumio Kamei (1908-1987)

Alias:
Фумио Камэи

Birthplace:
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Born:
April 1, 1908

Died:
February 27, 1987

Biography from TheMovieDB

Fumio Kamei (1908–1987) was a Japanese documentary and fiction film director known for his politically charged works. Influenced by Soviet montage theory, he began his career at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), making propaganda films about Japan’s war in China. His 1939 film Fighting Soldiers was banned for its unflinching portrayal of exhausted troops, and he later became the first director to lose his license under the 1939 Film Law and the only filmmaker arrested under the Peace Preservation Law. After World War II, Kamei helped reorganize Nippon Eiga-sha and directed The Japanese Tragedy (1946), a documentary critical of Japan’s imperialist past, which was ultimately censored. He continued making politically engaged documentaries and fiction films, tackling issues such as U.S. military bases in Japan, nuclear weapons, social discrimination, and environmental destruction.

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Cinematography:
1957  Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa

Director:
1935  Shape without Shape
1938  Peking
1938  Shanghai
1939  Fighting Soldiers
1941  Kobayashi Issa
1946  Tragedy of Japan
1947  War and Peace
1949  A Woman's Life
1952  Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1953  A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953  Children of the Base
1955  The People of Sunagawa
1955  Wheat Will Never Fall
1956  It Is Good to Live
1957  Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa
1957  The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”
1958  Living in a Rough Sea
1960  Men Are All Brothers
1984  All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds
1987  All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish

Editor:
1935  Shape without Shape
1938  Peking
1938  Shanghai
1939  Fighting Soldiers
1941  Kobayashi Issa
1946  Tragedy of Japan
1947  War and Peace
1949  A Woman's Life
1952  Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1953  A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953  Children of the Base
1955  The People of Sunagawa
1955  Wheat Will Never Fall
1956  It Is Good to Live
1957  Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa
1957  The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”
1958  Living in a Rough Sea
1960  Men Are All Brothers
1984  All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds
1987  All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish

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