Katsumi Nishikawa
Japanese film director · Japan · On the map · Directors · Lived 1918 to 2010 · aged 91
Katsumi Nishikawa was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films. Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952.
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Katsumi Nishikawa is read about 19 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 14 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
My PhoenixFilm, Director1984
Seito shokun!Film, Director1976
A Portrait of ShunkinFilm, Director, Writer1975
The Last SongFilm, Director1969
Women of the Night - Butterfly FlowerFilm, Director1968
Eternal LoveFilm, Director1966
Night of SorrowFilm, Director1965
Song of FarewellFilm, Director1962
Fresh LeavesFilm, Director1961
Kusa wo karu musumeFilm, Director1959
Beneath the GallowsFilm, Director1958
The Man Who Wagers TomorrowFilm, Director1956Family of SorrowFilm, Director1918Born1 July 1918People around Katsumi
Close ties
Momoe Yamaguchi Also in The Izu Dancer and The Surf
Sayuri Yoshinaga Katsumi directed Izu no odoriko (1963)
Tomokazu Miura Katsumi directed Izu no Odoriko and Shunkinshō
Yūjirō Ishihara Katsumi directed Seinen no isu (1962)
Ruriko Asaoka Katsumi directed The Nun (1958)
Yōjirō Ishizaka Also in Fresh Leaves and Beyond the Green Hills
Kazuo Funaki Also in Night of Sorrow and Lost Love
Izumi Ashikawa Also in Shiawase wa doko ni and Windy Street
Yasunari Kawabata Also in Windy Street and Love Comes with Youth
Masayuki Mori Katsumi directed Homecoming (1964)
Chieko Matsubara Also in Lost Love and Eternal Love
Yūko Mochizuki Katsumi directed The Grass-Cutters (1961)
Eijirō Tōno Katsumi directed Seinen no isu (1962)
Kō Nakahira Directed Frankie the Milkman (1956)
Farida Arriany Produced The Spiders' The Road to Bali (1968)
Masako Izumi Also in The Sea of Eden and Night of Sorrow
Hiroshi Sekiguchi Also in The Four Loves and Sweet Revenge
Midori Tashiro Also in Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
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75 credits on file
About this person
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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