Katsumi Nishikawa
Directing
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.
Known for
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movieOne Bowl of Kakesoba
1992
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movieVirgin Road
1989
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movieMy Phoenix
1989
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movieSeito shokun!
1984
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movieThe Sea of Sparta
1983
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movieSweet Revenge
1977
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movieThe Wild Daisy
1977
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movieTwo Lovers Point
1977
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movieA Portrait of Shunkin
1976
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movieThe Sea of Eden
1976
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movieThe Last Song
1975
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movieThe Surf
1975
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movieThe Izu Dancer
1974
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movieEternal Love
1968
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movieLost Love
1967
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movieJourney to the North
1967
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movie陽のあたる坂道
1967
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movieThe Swan Elegy
1966
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movieNo Greater Love
1966
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movieTomo o okuru uta
1966
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movieNight of Sorrow
1966
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movieThe Four Loves
1965
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movieSong of Farewell
1965
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movieHomecoming
1964
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movieThe Sea of Eden
1963
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movieLove Comes with Youth
1963
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movieGone in the Rain
1963
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movieBeyond the Green Hills
1963
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movieFresh Leaves
1962
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movieSeinen no isu
1962
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movieKimagure tosei
1962
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movieKusa wo karu musume
1961
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moviePursuit
1961
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movieDoing What I Please
1961
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movieShippû kozô
1960
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movieWakai toppū
1960
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movie素っ飛び小僧
1960
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movie六三制愚連隊
1960
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movieTatsumaki kozō
1960
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movieWindy Street
1959
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movieDownhill Youth
1959
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movieBeneath the Gallows
1959
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movieImmoral Lecture
1959
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movieThe Nun
1958
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movie孤独の人
1957
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movieShiawase wa doko ni
1956
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movieStriving to Live
1955
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movieNatsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953
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Writing17
movieVirgin Road
1989
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movieThe Wild Daisy
1977
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movieA Portrait of Shunkin
1976
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movieThe Spiders' The Road to Bali
1968
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movieNo Greater Love
1966
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movieHomecoming
1964
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movieGone in the Rain
1963
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movieWakai toppū
1960
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movieWindy Street
1959
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movieImmoral Lecture
1959
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movieThe Nun
1958
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movieFrankie the Milkman
1956
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movieShiawase wa doko ni
1956
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movieThe Last Song
1975
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