Katsumi Nishikawa

Directing·Jul 1, 1918·Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Film	Credit
Black Art Collection -Testimony-2020 · Writer	Writer
One Bowl of Kakesoba1992 · Director	Director
Virgin Road1989 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
My Phoenix1989 · Director	Director
Seito shokun!1984 · Director	Director
The Sea of Sparta1983 · Director	Director
Sweet Revenge1977 · Director	Director
The Wild Daisy1977 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Two Lovers Point1977 · Director	Director
A Portrait of Shunkin1976 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Sea of Eden1976 · Director	Director
The Last Song1975 · Director	Director
The Surf1975 · Director	Director
The Izu Dancer1974 · Director	Director
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority1969 · Director	Director
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower1969 · Director	Director
The Spiders' The Road to Bali1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Eternal Love1968 · Director	Director
Lost Love1967 · Director	Director
Journey to the North1967 · Director	Director
陽のあたる坂道1967 · Director	Director
The Swan Elegy1966 · Director	Director
No Greater Love1966 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Tomo o okuru uta1966 · Director	Director
Night of Sorrow1966 · Director	Director
The Four Loves1965 · Director	Director
Song of Farewell1965 · Director	Director
Homecoming1964 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Sea of Eden1963 · Director	Director
Love Comes with Youth1963 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Gone in the Rain1963 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Beyond the Green Hills1963 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fresh Leaves1962 · Director	Director
The Man With Starry Eyes1962 · Director	Director
Red Bud and White Flower1962 · Director	Director
Seinen no isu1962 · Director	Director
Kimagure tosei1962 · Director	Director
Kusa wo karu musume1961 · Director	Director
Pursuit1961 · Director	Director
Doing What I Please1961 · Director	Director
My Hometown is the Wild West1960 · Director	Director
Shippû kozô1960 · Director	Director
Wakai toppū1960 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
素っ飛び小僧1960 · Director	Director
六三制愚連隊1960 · Director	Director
Tatsumaki kozō1960 · Director	Director
Windy Street1959 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Downhill Youth1959 · Director	Director