A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Кацуми Нисикава
Birthplace:
Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Born:
July 1, 1918
Died:
April 6, 2010
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.
Assistant Director:
1953 Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Cinematography:
1953 Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1975 The Last Song
Director:
1953 Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1955 Striving to Live
1956 Family of Sorrow
1956 Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956 Shiawase wa doko ni
1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958 The Nun
1959 Downhill Youth
1959 Immoral Lecture
1959 Windy Street
1960 Shippû kozô
1960 Tatsumaki kozō
1960 Wakai toppū
1960 俺の故郷は大西部
1961 Kusa wo karu musume
1961 Pursuit
1962 Fresh Leaves
1962 Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1962 Kimagure tosei
1962 Red Bud and White Flower
1962 Seinen no isu
1963 Beyond the Green Hills
1963 Gone in the Rain
1963 Love Comes with Youth
1964 Homecoming
1965 Song of Farewell
1965 The Four Loves
1966 Night of Sorrow
1966 No Greater Love
1966 The Swan Elegy
1966 Tomo o okuru uta
1967 Journey to the North
1967 Lost Love
1968 Eternal Love
1968 The Spiders' The Road to Bali
1969 Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969 Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
1974 The Izu Dancer
1975 The Last Song
1975 The Surf
1976 A Portrait of Shunkin
1976 The Sea of Eden
1977 Sweet Revenge
1977 The Wild Daisy
1983 The Sea of Sparta
1984 Seito shokun!
1989 My Phoenix
1989 Virgin Road
1992 One Bowl of Kakesoba
Screenplay:
1953 Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1955 Striving to Live
1956 Family of Sorrow
1956 Frankie the Milkman
1956 Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956 Shiawase wa doko ni
1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958 The Nun
1959 Downhill Youth
1959 Immoral Lecture
1959 Windy Street
1960 Shippû kozô
1960 Tatsumaki kozō
1960 Wakai toppū
1960 俺の故郷は大西部
1961 Kusa wo karu musume
1961 Pursuit
1962 Fresh Leaves
1962 Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1962 Kimagure tosei
1962 Red Bud and White Flower
1962 Seinen no isu
1963 Beyond the Green Hills
1963 Gone in the Rain
1963 Love Comes with Youth
1964 Homecoming
1965 Song of Farewell
1965 The Four Loves
1966 Night of Sorrow
1966 No Greater Love
1966 The Swan Elegy
1966 Tomo o okuru uta
1967 Journey to the North
1967 Lost Love
1968 Eternal Love
1968 The Spiders' The Road to Bali
1969 Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969 Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
1974 The Izu Dancer
1975 The Last Song
1975 The Surf
1976 A Portrait of Shunkin
1976 The Sea of Eden
1977 Sweet Revenge
1977 The Wild Daisy
1983 The Sea of Sparta
1984 Seito shokun!
1989 My Phoenix
1989 Virgin Road
1992 One Bowl of Kakesoba
Writer:
1953 Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1955 Striving to Live
1956 Family of Sorrow
1956 Frankie the Milkman
1956 Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956 Shiawase wa doko ni
1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958 The Nun
1959 Downhill Youth
1959 Immoral Lecture
1959 Windy Street
1960 Shippû kozô
1960 Tatsumaki kozō
1960 Wakai toppū
1960 俺の故郷は大西部
1961 Kusa wo karu musume
1961 Pursuit
1962 Fresh Leaves
1962 Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1962 Kimagure tosei
1962 Red Bud and White Flower
1962 Seinen no isu
1963 Beyond the Green Hills
1963 Gone in the Rain
1963 Love Comes with Youth
1964 Homecoming
1965 Song of Farewell
1965 The Four Loves
1966 Night of Sorrow
1966 No Greater Love
1966 The Swan Elegy
1966 Tomo o okuru uta
1967 Journey to the North
1967 Lost Love
1968 Eternal Love
1968 The Spiders' The Road to Bali
1969 Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969 Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
1974 The Izu Dancer
1975 The Last Song
1975 The Surf
1976 A Portrait of Shunkin
1976 The Sea of Eden
1977 Sweet Revenge
1977 The Wild Daisy
1983 The Sea of Sparta
1984 Seito shokun!
1989 My Phoenix
1989 Virgin Road
1992 One Bowl of Kakesoba
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