Katsumi Nishikawa
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.
Directing (53 movies)
The Sea of Sparta
1983
Tomo o okuru uta
1966
The Izu Dancer
1974
Immoral Lecture
1959
The Wild Daisy
1977
Night of Sorrow
1966
Striving to Live
1955
Pursuit
1961
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1962
The Surf
1975
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Lost Love
1967
Eternal Love
1968
Homecoming
1964
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Sweet Revenge
1977
Love Comes with Youth
1963
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976
My Phoenix
1989
Family of Sorrow
1956
Journey to the North
1967
The Last Song
1975
One Bowl of Kakesoba
1992
Gone in the Rain
1963
Tatsumaki kozō
1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
No Greater Love
1966
Song of Farewell
1965
The Sea of Eden
1976
Kimagure tosei
1962
Kusa wo karu musume
1961
Seinen no isu
1962
Seito shokun!
1984
Virgin Road
1989
Wakai toppū
1960
Fresh Leaves
1962
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
1968
Windy Street
1959
The Nun
1958
The Swan Elegy
1966
The Four Loves
1965
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
Downhill Youth
1959
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
1969
Shippû kozô
1960
Beneath the Gallows
1959
Doing What I Please
1961
六三制愚連隊
1960
The Sea of Eden
1963
Lover's Cape
1977
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Funny Friend: The Baby and Express | 1956 | Screenplay |
| Shiawase wa doko ni | 1956 | Screenplay |
| Frankie the Milkman | 1956 | Screenplay |
| The Nun | 1958 | Screenplay |
| Immoral Lecture | 1959 | Screenplay |
| Windy Street | 1959 | Screenplay |
| Wakai toppū | 1960 | Screenplay |
| Beyond the Green Hills | 1963 | Writer |
| Gone in the Rain | 1963 | Screenplay |
| Love Comes with Youth | 1963 | Writer |
| Homecoming | 1964 | Writer |
| No Greater Love | 1966 | Screenplay |
| The Spiders' The Road to Bali | 1968 | Screenplay |
| A Portrait of Shunkin | 1976 | Screenplay |
| The Wild Daisy | 1977 | Screenplay |
| Virgin Road | 1989 | Screenplay |
| Black Art Collection -Testimony- | 2020 | Writer |