Kamei Fumio

KAMEI Fumio (1908 - 1987, Japan) was a film maker, editor and screenwriter. In the 1930s, he studied film in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in Soviet Russia. Kamei's work was a model for the documentaries that appeared during the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Japan. Fighting Soldiers (1939) was criticized by authorities as potentially an anti-war film and its release was blocked. This film is widely recognized as a defining work of Japanese documentary cinema.