
Hideo Sekigawa
Biography
Hideo Sekigawa (関 川 秀雄, Sekigawa Hideo, 1 December 1908 – 16 December 1977) was a Japanese film director known mainly for films with a left-wing agenda made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His most noted works are the anti-war films Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) and Hiroshima (1953).
Hideo Sekigawa joined the documentary branch of P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) in the 1930s where he worked on militarist propaganda films despite his Communist leanings. After the Second World War, Sekigawa debuted as co-director of the pro-unionist Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) which was intended to illustrate the purpose of the workers' union at the Toho film studios. Having difficulties finding work due to his political leanings, he directed the anti-war film Listen to the Voices of the Sea for Mitsuo Makino's Toyoko Eiga company (later Toei Company). For the Japan Teachers Union, which had been unhappy with Kaneto Shindo's Children of Hiroshima for not being political enough, he directed Hiroshima (1953) in a semi-documentary style, parts of which were later used (uncredited) by Alain Resnais for his drama Hiroshima mon amour. In later years, Sekigawa's output included both audience-orientated genre works and documentaries. His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono.
Directing (30 movies)

Roar and Earth
1957

Those Who Make Tomorrow
1946

Devil in My Flesh
1968

Sky Scraper!
1969

Hiroshima
1953

Vermin
1965

A Dead Drifter
1959

Like Fire is My Life
1961

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
1963
Chikagai nijuyojikan
1947

Dupe
1965

Devotion to Railway
1960

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Tattooed Temptress
1968

The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
1957

Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
1957

Sex Peddlers
1965

Tale of Young Drifter 2
1960

Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
1961

Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958

A Thousand Suspects
1966

あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1962

The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
1956

Tale of Young Drifter
1960
Senka o koete
1950

A Second Life
1948

The Great Road
1960

Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer
1956

Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
1957

Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii
1968
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