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