Katsumi Nishikawa

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1918-07-01

Deathday 2010-04-06 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Кацуми Нисикава

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.

Known For

Director

1992
1989
My Phoenix

as Director

1989
Virgin Road

as Director

1984
Seito shokun!

as Director

1983
The Sea of Sparta

as Director

1977
The Wild Daisy

as Director

1977
Sweet Revenge

as Director

1976
1976
The Sea of Eden

as Director

1975
The Surf

as Director

1975
The Last Song

as Director

1974
The Izu Dancer

as Director

1968
Eternal Love

as Director

1967
Lost Love

as Director

1967
1966
Tomo o okuru uta

as Director

1966
Night of Sorrow

as Director

1966
No Greater Love

as Director

1966
The Swan Elegy

as Director

1965
Song of Farewell

as Director

1965
The Four Loves

as Director

1964
Homecoming

as Director

1963
1963
1963
Gone in the Rain

as Director

1962
1962
Kimagure tosei

as Director

1962
Seinen no isu

as Director

1962
Fresh Leaves

as Director

1961
Pursuit

as Director

1961
1960
竜巻小僧

as Director

1960
1960
Wakai toppū

as Director

1959
Immoral Lecture

as Director

1959
Windy Street

as Director

1959
Downhill Youth

as Director

1958
The Nun

as Director

1956
Family of Sorrow

as Director

1956
1955
Striving to Live

as Director

1953
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

as Assistant Director

Writer

1989
Virgin Road

as Screenplay

1977
The Wild Daisy

as Screenplay

1976
A Portrait of Shunkin

as Screenplay

1966
No Greater Love

as Screenplay

1964
Homecoming

as Writer

1963
1963
Gone in the Rain

as Screenplay

1960
Wakai toppū

as Screenplay

1959
Immoral Lecture

as Screenplay

1959
Windy Street

as Screenplay

1958
The Nun

as Screenplay

1956
Frankie the Milkman

as Screenplay

1956
Shiawase wa doko ni

as Screenplay

Crew

1975
The Last Song

as Cinematography