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Hideo Sekigawa
Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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…
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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.
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1969
Sky Scraper!
Movie Director
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1968
Devil in My Flesh
Movie Director
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1968
Tattooed Temptress
Movie Director
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1968
Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii
Movie Director
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1966
A Thousand Suspects
Movie Director
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1965
Dupe
Movie Director
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1965
Vermin
Movie Director
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1965
Sex Peddlers
Movie Director
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1963
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
Movie Director
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1962
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
Movie Director
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1961
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Movie Director
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1961
Like Fire is My Life
Movie Director
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1960
Devotion to Railway
Movie Director
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1960
Tale of Young Drifter 2
Movie Director
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1960
Tale of Young Drifter
Movie Director
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1960
The Great Road
Movie Director
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1959
The Silent Murder
Movie Director
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1959
A Dead Drifter
Movie Director
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1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie Director
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1957
Roar and Earth
Movie Director
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1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Movie Director
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1957
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Movie Director
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1957
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
Movie Director
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1956
Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer
Movie Director
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1956
Sound of Youth
Movie Director
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1956
The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
Movie Director
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1955
A Trumpet Boy
Movie Director
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1953
Hiroshima
Movie Director
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1952
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
Movie Director
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1951
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
Movie Director
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1950
Crossing the Flames of War
Movie Director
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1950
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Movie Director
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1948
A Second Life
Movie Director
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1947
Chikagai nijuyojikan
Movie Director
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1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Movie Director
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1941
White Heron
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The River Watches
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