Katsumi Nishikawa
Born: 1918-07-01 in Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Died: 2010-04-06
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2020
- Black Art Collection -Testimony- ... (Writer)
1992
- One Bowl of Kakesoba ... (Director)
1989
- My Phoenix ... (Director)
- Virgin Road ... (Director)
1984
- Seito shokun! ... (Director)
1983
- The Sea of Sparta ... (Director)
1977
- Sweet Revenge ... (Director)
- The Wild Daisy ... (Director)
- Two Lovers Point ... (Director)
1976
- A Portrait of Shunkin ... (Director)
- The Sea of Eden ... (Director)
1975
- The Surf ... (Director)
- The Last Song ... (Director)
1974
- The Izu Dancer ... (Director)
1969
- Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower ... (Director)
- Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority ... (Director)
1968
- The Spiders' The Road to Bali ... (Director)
- Eternal Love ... (Director)
1967
- Lost Love ... (Director)
- Journey to the North ... (Director)
- 陽のあたる坂道 ... (Director)
1966
- The Swan Elegy ... (Director)
- Tomo o okuru uta ... (Director)
- No Greater Love ... (Screenplay)
- Night of Sorrow ... (Director)
1965
- Song of Farewell ... (Director)
- The Four Loves ... (Director)
1964
- Homecoming ... (Writer)
1963
- Gone in the Rain ... (Screenplay)
- Love Comes with Youth ... (Writer)
- Beyond the Green Hills ... (Director)
- The Sea of Eden ... (Director)
1962
- The Man With Starry Eyes ... (Director)
- Kimagure tosei ... (Director)
- Red Bud and White Flower ... (Director)
- Fresh Leaves ... (Director)
- Seinen no isu ... (Director)
1961
- Pursuit ... (Director)
- Doing What I Please ... (Director)
- Kusa wo karu musume ... (Director)
1960
- Tatsumaki kozō ... (Director)
- 素っ飛び小僧 ... (Director)
- Shippû kozô ... (Director)
- My Hometown is the Wild West ... (Director)
- Wakai toppū ... (Screenplay)
- 六三制愚連隊 ... (Director)
1959
- Beneath the Gallows ... (Director)
- Windy Street ... (Screenplay)
- Immoral Lecture ... (Director)
- Downhill Youth ... (Director)
1958
- The Nun ... (Screenplay)
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow ... (Director)
1957
- 孤独の人 ... (Director)
1956
- Frankie the Milkman ... (Screenplay)
- Shiawase wa doko ni ... (Director)
- Family of Sorrow ... (Director)
- Funny Friend: The Baby and Express ... (Screenplay)
1955
- Striving to Live ... (Director)
1953
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido ... (Assistant Director)