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
- Virgin Road ... (Director)
- My Phoenix ... (Director)
1984
- Seito shokun! ... (Director)
1983
- The Sea of Sparta ... (Director)
1977
- Two Lovers Point ... (Director)
- Sweet Revenge ... (Director)
- The Wild Daisy ... (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
- Eternal Love ... (Director)
- The Spiders' The Road to Bali ... (Director)
1967
- Lost Love ... (Director)
- Journey to the North ... (Director)
- 陽のあたる坂道 ... (Director)
1966
- Night of Sorrow ... (Director)
- No Greater Love ... (Screenplay)
- The Swan Elegy ... (Director)
- Tomo o okuru uta ... (Director)
1965
- The Four Loves ... (Director)
- Song of Farewell ... (Director)
1964
- Homecoming ... (Writer)
1963
- Love Comes with Youth ... (Writer)
- Beyond the Green Hills ... (Director)
- Gone in the Rain ... (Screenplay)
- The Sea of Eden ... (Director)
1962
- Fresh Leaves ... (Director)
- Red Bud and White Flower ... (Director)
- Kimagure tosei ... (Director)
- The Man With Starry Eyes ... (Director)
- Seinen no isu ... (Director)
1961
- Pursuit ... (Director)
- Kusa wo karu musume ... (Director)
- Doing What I Please ... (Director)
1960
- My Hometown is the Wild West ... (Director)
- Wakai toppū ... (Screenplay)
- Tatsumaki kozō ... (Director)
- 素っ飛び小僧 ... (Director)
- 六三制愚連隊 ... (Director)
- Shippû kozô ... (Director)
1959
- Beneath the Gallows ... (Director)
- Downhill Youth ... (Director)
- Immoral Lecture ... (Director)
- Windy Street ... (Screenplay)
1958
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow ... (Director)
- The Nun ... (Screenplay)
1957
- 孤独の人 ... (Director)
1956
- Shiawase wa doko ni ... (Director)
- Frankie the Milkman ... (Screenplay)
- Funny Friend: The Baby and Express ... (Screenplay)
- Family of Sorrow ... (Director)
1955
- Striving to Live ... (Director)
1953
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido ... (Assistant Director)