Katsumi Nishikawa
Directing
Born July 1, 1918 · Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
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.
Directed (56)
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
Two Lovers Point
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 - Woman of Seniority
1969
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
陽のあたる坂道
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
The Sea of Eden
1963
Love Comes with Youth
1963
Gone in the Rain
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Fresh Leaves
1962
The Man With Starry Eyes
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Seinen no isu
1962
Kimagure tosei
1962
Kusa wo karu musume
1961
Pursuit
1961
Doing What I Please
1961
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
Shippû kozô
1960
Wakai toppū
1960
素っ飛び小僧
1960
六三制愚連隊
1960
Tatsumaki kozō
1960
Windy Street
1959
Downhill Youth
1959
Beneath the Gallows
1959
Immoral Lecture
1959
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
The Nun
1958
孤独の人
1957
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Family of Sorrow
1956
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956
Striving to Live
1955