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
all 47
Movies 47
Director 45
Writer 2
Black Art Collection -Testimony- (2020)
One Bowl of Kakesoba (1992)
Virgin Road (1989)
My Phoenix (1989)
Seito shokun! (1984)
The Sea of Sparta (1983)
Sweet Revenge (1977)
The Wild Daisy (1977)
A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)
The Sea of Eden (1976)
The Last Song (1975)
The Surf (1975)
The Izu Dancer (1974)
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)
The Spiders' The Road to Bali (1968)
Eternal Love (1968)
Lost Love (1967)
Journey to the North (1967)
The Swan Elegy (1966)
No Greater Love (1966)
Tomo o okuru uta (1966)
Night of Sorrow (1966)
The Four Loves (1965)
Song of Farewell (1965)
Homecoming (1964)
Love Comes with Youth (1963)
Gone in the Rain (1963)
Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
Fresh Leaves (1962)
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko (1962)
Red Bud and White Flower (1962)
Seinen no isu (1962)
Kimagure tosei (1962)
Kusa wo karu musume (1961)
Pursuit (1961)
Wakai toppū (1960)
Windy Street (1959)
Downhill Youth (1959)
Immoral Lecture (1959)
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (1958)
The Nun (1958)
Frankie the Milkman (1956)
Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)
Family of Sorrow (1956)
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express (1956)
Striving to Live (1955)
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido (1953)
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GenderMale
Birthday1918-07-01
Deathday2010-04-06 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceChizu, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As西河克己, Кацуми Нисикава
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