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
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Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2020
One Bowl of Kakesoba
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1992
Virgin Road
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1989
Virgin Road
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1989
My Phoenix
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1989
Seito shokun!
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1984
The Sea of Sparta
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1983
Sweet Revenge
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1977
The Wild Daisy
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1977
The Wild Daisy
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1977
A Portrait of Shunkin
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1976
A Portrait of Shunkin
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1976
The Sea of Eden
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1976
The Last Song
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1975
The Last Song
Role: Cinematography
MOVIE • 1975
The Surf
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1975
The Izu Dancer
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1974
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1969
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1969
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1968