
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 |