Katsumi Nishikawa
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 1, 1918
- Died
- April 6, 2010 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Katsumi Nishikawa (西河克己, Nishikawa Katsumi) (1 July 1918 – 6 April 2010) was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films (seishun eiga). Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkatsu in 1954 and, while working in a variety of genres, became most famous for his youth films starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yujiro Ishihara, and Hideki Takahashi. In the 1970s, he remade some of these films with the idol singer Momoe Yamaguchi and her future husband Tomokazu Miura. The Katsumi Nishikawa Memorial Film Museum was opened in his hometown of Chizu, Tottori, in 2001. Nishikawa published several books, including one about his war experience and another about filming Yasunari Kawabata's The Dancing Girl of Izu several times. He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2010.
Known For
Filmography
One Bowl of Kakesoba
Movie · Director
My Phoenix
Movie · Director
Virgin Road
Movie · Director
Seito shokun!
Movie · Director
The Sea of Sparta
Movie · Director
The Wild Daisy
Movie · Director
Sweet Revenge
Movie · Director
Two Lovers Point
Movie · Director
A Portrait of Shunkin
Movie · Director
The Sea of Eden
Movie · Director
The Surf
Movie · Director
The Last Song
Movie · Director
The Izu Dancer
Movie · Director
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Movie · Director
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
Movie · Director
Eternal Love
Movie · Director
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Movie · Director
Lost Love
Movie · Director
Journey to the North
Movie · Director
陽のあたる坂道
Movie · Director
Tomo o okuru uta
Movie · Director
Night of Sorrow
Movie · Director
No Greater Love
Movie · Director
The Swan Elegy
Movie · Director
Song of Farewell
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The Four Loves
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Homecoming
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Beyond the Green Hills
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Love Comes with Youth
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Gone in the Rain
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The Sea of Eden
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The Man With Starry Eyes
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Red Bud and White Flower
Movie · Director
Kimagure tosei
Movie · Director
Seinen no isu
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Fresh Leaves
Movie · Director
Pursuit
Movie · Director
Kusa wo karu musume
Movie · Director
Doing What I Please
Movie · Director
Tatsumaki kozō
Movie · Director
My Hometown is the Wild West
Movie · Director
Wakai toppū
Movie · Director
Shippû kozô
Movie · Director
六三制愚連隊
Movie · Director
素っ飛び小僧
Movie · Director
Immoral Lecture
Movie · Director
Windy Street
Movie · Director
Downhill Youth
Movie · Director
Beneath the Gallows
Movie · Director
The Nun
Movie · Director
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Movie · Director
孤独の人
Movie · Director
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
Movie · Director
Family of Sorrow
Movie · Director
Shiawase wa doko ni
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Striving to Live
Movie · Director
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Movie · Assistant Director