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Katsumi Nishikawa
Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
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 Univers…
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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.
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2020
Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Movie Writer
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1992
One Bowl of Kakesoba
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1989
Virgin Road
Movie Director
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1989
My Phoenix
Movie Director
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1984
Seito shokun!
Movie Director
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1983
The Sea of Sparta
Movie Director
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1977
Sweet Revenge
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1977
The Wild Daisy
Movie Director
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1977
Two Lovers Point
Movie Director
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1976
A Portrait of Shunkin
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1976
The Sea of Eden
Movie Director
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1975
The Last Song
Movie Director
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1975
The Surf
Movie Director
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1974
The Izu Dancer
Movie Director
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1969
Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
Movie Director
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1969
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
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1968
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
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1968
Eternal Love
Movie Director
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1967
Lost Love
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1967
Journey to the North
Movie Director
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1967
陽のあたる坂道
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1966
The Swan Elegy
Movie Director
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1966
No Greater Love
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Tomo o okuru uta
Movie Director
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1966
Night of Sorrow
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1965
The Four Loves
Movie Director
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1965
Song of Farewell
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1964
Homecoming
Movie Writer
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1963
The Sea of Eden
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1963
Love Comes with Youth
Movie Writer
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1963
Gone in the Rain
Movie Screenplay
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1963
Beyond the Green Hills
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1962
Fresh Leaves
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1962
The Man With Starry Eyes
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1962
Red Bud and White Flower
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1962
Seinen no isu
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1962
Kimagure tosei
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1961
Kusa wo karu musume
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1961
Pursuit
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1961
Doing What I Please
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