Katsumi Nishikawa
Katsumi Nishikawa was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films. 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.
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🎬 Movies
One Bowl of Kakesoba
director
1992
Virgin Road
director
1989
Virgin Road
writer
1989
Seito shokun!
director
1984
The Sea of Sparta
director
1983
Sweet Revenge
director
1977
A Portrait of Shunkin
director
1976
A Portrait of Shunkin
writer
1976
The Sea of Eden
director
1976
The Last Song
director
1975
The Surf
director
1975
The Izu Dancer
director
1974
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
director
1968
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
writer
1968
The Swan Elegy
director
1966
No Greater Love
director
1966
No Greater Love
writer
1966
Night of Sorrow
director
1966
The Four Loves
director
1965
Song of Farewell
director
1965
Love Comes with Youth
writer
1963
Love Comes with Youth
director
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
writer
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
director
1963
Fresh Leaves
director
1962
六三制愚連隊
director
1960
Windy Street
director
1959
Windy Street
writer
1959
Downhill Youth
director
1959
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
director
1958
Shiawase wa doko ni
director
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
writer
1956
Family of Sorrow
director
1956
Striving to Live
director
1955