Hideo Sekigawa

Directing·Dec 1, 1908·Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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Hideo Sekigawa (関川秀雄, Sekigawa Hideo, 1 December 1908 – 16 December 1977) was a Japanese film director known mainly for films with a left-wing agenda made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His most noted works are the anti-war films Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) and Hiroshima (1953). Hideo Sekigawa joined the documentary branch of P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) in the 1930s where he worked on militarist propaganda films despite his Communist leanings. After the Second World War, Sekigawa debuted as co-director of the pro-unionist Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) which was intended to illustrate the purpose of the workers' union at the Toho film studios. Having difficulties finding work due to his political leanings, he directed the anti-war film Listen to the Voices of the Sea for Mitsuo Makino's Toyoko Eiga company (later Toei Company). For the Japan Teachers Union, which had been unhappy with Kaneto Shindo's Children of Hiroshima for not being political enough, he directed Hiroshima (1953) in a semi-documentary style, parts of which were later used (uncredited) by Alain Resnais for his drama Hiroshima mon amour. In later years, Sekigawa's output included both audience-orientated genre works and documentaries. His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono.

Film	Credit
Sky Scraper!1969 · Director	Director
Devil in My Flesh1968 · Director	Director
TTattooed Temptress1968 · Director	Director
Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii1968 · Director	Director
A Thousand Suspects1966 · Director	Director
Dupe1965 · Director	Director
Vermin1965 · Director	Director
Sex Peddlers1965 · Director	Director
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape1963 · Director	Director
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku1962 · Director	Director
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery1961 · Director	Director
Like Fire is My Life1961 · Director	Director
Devotion to Railway1960 · Director	Director
Tale of Young Drifter 21960 · Director	Director
Tale of Young Drifter1960 · Director	Director
The Great Road1960 · Director	Director
The Silent Murder1959 · Director	Director
A Dead Drifter1959 · Director	Director
Beyond the Seasonal Wind1958 · Director	Director
Roar and Earth1957 · Director	Director
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend1957 · Director	Director
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki1957 · Director	Director
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon1957 · Director	Director
Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer1956 · Director	Director
Sound of Youth1956 · Director	Director
The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi1956 · Director	Director
A Trumpet Boy1955 · Director	Director
Hiroshima1953 · Director	Director
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan1952 · Director	Director
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai1951 · Director	Director
CCrossing the Flames of War1950 · Director	Director
Listen to the Voices of the Sea1950 · Director	Director
A Second Life1948 · Director	Director
CChikagai nijuyojikan1947 · Director	Director
Those Who Make Tomorrow1946 · Director	Director
TThe River WatchesDirector, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay