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Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Other Works]

Kamei on Kamei: A Record of Yesterday’s Film Production Discussion Group

(“Kamei Fumio oi ni kataru: Kino no eiga seisaku o katariau kai no kiroku”)
- 1982 / Color / Video / 104 min

Source: Japan Document Film

This video records all of one episode of “Yesterday’s Film Production Discussion Group—Inviting Kamei Fumio” held on October 13, 1982. Kamei talks about his work, relating many stories. Although we can no longer hear Kamei’s actual voice, this video gives a variety of historically important testimonies and is valuable for anyone who studies the history of Japanese film. The original was recorded on several 3/4-inch video tapes, but has been re-edited by Abe Yutaka for this screening.


• Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Pre-War Works] Hiking Song | Shape without Shape | An Introduction to Radio: The Audience | School Broadcasting | The Geology of Fuji | Airspace [Pre-War Documentary Films] Shanghai | Peking | Fighting Soldiers | Kobayashi Issa [Post-War Documentary Films] A Japanese Tragedy | Children of the Base | The People of Sunagawa | Wheat Will Never Fall | Still It’s Good to Live | Record of Blood: Sunagawa | The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death” | Living in a Rough Sea | Fluttering Pigeons | Voice of Hiroshima | Men Are All Brothers | Towards a World without Arms | All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds | All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish [Feature Films] War and Peace | A Woman’s Life | Become a Mother, Become a Woman | Woman Walking Alone on the Earth [PR and Educational Films] Poem of Life | Invitation to Japanese Architecture | Penmanship | Quiet Construction Methods | Living with Ideas: A Profile of Sharp | Let’s Weave a Rainbow | Hong Kong, Taipei | Norihei Travel Manners | The Southern Cross Is Calling | Wishing for Tomorrow’s Happiness [Other Works] Underwear Makes the Woman | The Models and the Photographer | Kamei on Kamei: A Record of Yesterday’s Film Production Discussion Group | Human Conceit: The World of Director Kamei Fumio