Directing
Katsumi Nishikawa
JA cinema · 59 credits
Born
1 July 1918
Died
6 April 2010 (aged 91)
Birthplace
Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Also known as Кацуми Нисикава
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
Director
My Phoenix
Director
Virgin Road
Director, Screenplay
Seito shokun!
Director
The Wild Daisy
Director, Screenplay
Sweet Revenge
Director
A Portrait of Shunkin
Director, Screenplay
The Sea of Eden
Director
The Surf
Director
The Last Song
Director, Cinematography
The Izu Dancer
Director
Eternal Love
Director
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Director, Screenplay
Lost Love
Director
陽のあたる坂道
Director
No Greater Love
Screenplay, Director
The Swan Elegy
Director
The Four Loves
Director
Homecoming
Writer, Director
Beyond the Green Hills
Director, Writer
Love Comes with Youth
Writer, Director
Gone in the Rain
Screenplay, Director
The Sea of Eden
Director
Kimagure tosei
Director
Seinen no isu
Director
Fresh Leaves
Director
Pursuit
Director
Kusa wo karu musume
Director
Tatsumaki kozō
Director
Wakai toppū
Screenplay, Director
Shippû kozô
Director
六三制愚連隊
Director
素っ飛び小僧
Director
Immoral Lecture
Director, Screenplay
Windy Street
Screenplay, Director
Downhill Youth
Director
The Nun
Screenplay, Director
孤独の人
Director
愉快な仲間 赤ちゃん特急
1956
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
Screenplay, Director
Frankie the Milkman
Screenplay
Shiawase wa doko ni
Director, Screenplay
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Assistant Director