Katsumi Nishikawa
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.
Crew
The Sea of Sparta
Director
Immoral Lecture
Director, Screenplay
The Wild Daisy
Director, Screenplay
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Director
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Director
Red Bud and White Flower
Director
Homecoming
Writer, Director
Beyond the Green Hills
Director, Writer
Love Comes with Youth
Writer, Director
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Assistant Director
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
Screenplay, Director
A Portrait of Shunkin
Director, Screenplay
Journey to the North
Director
The Last Song
Director, Cinematography
One Bowl of Kakesoba
Director
Gone in the Rain
Screenplay, Director
My Hometown is the Wild West
Director
No Greater Love
Screenplay, Director
Kusa wo karu musume
Director
Virgin Road
Director, Screenplay
Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Writer
Frankie the Milkman
Screenplay
Wakai toppū
Director, Screenplay
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Director, Screenplay
Windy Street
Director, Screenplay
The Nun
Screenplay, Director
Shiawase wa doko ni
Director, Screenplay
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Director
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
Director
Beneath the Gallows
Director
Doing What I Please
Director
