Katsumi Nishikawa
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Born: July 1, 1918 · Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Died: April 6, 2010 (aged 91)
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.
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
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The Nun
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The Izu Dancer
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No Greater Love
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Love Comes with Youth
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My Phoenix
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Lost Love
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Pursuit
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Gone in the Rain
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Kimagure tosei
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Sweet Revenge
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One Bowl of Kakesoba
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The Last Song
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Doing What I Please
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Striving to Live
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The Man With Starry Eyes
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The Surf
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Shiawase wa doko ni
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Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
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A Portrait of Shunkin
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Beyond the Green Hills
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Virgin Road
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Tatsumaki kozō
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The Four Loves
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Journey to the North
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Red Bud and White Flower
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Beneath the Gallows
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Kusa wo karu musume
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The Sea of Eden
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The Wild Daisy
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Song of Farewell
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Homecoming
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My Hometown is the Wild West
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Eternal Love
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Night of Sorrow
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
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Seinen no isu
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Windy Street
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The Sea of Eden
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Wakai toppū
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陽のあたる坂道
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali
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Tomo o okuru uta
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
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Fresh Leaves
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Two Lovers Point
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The Swan Elegy
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Seito shokun!
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六三制愚連隊
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The Sea of Sparta
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Immoral Lecture
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Downhill Youth
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素っ飛び小僧
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孤独の人
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Shippû kozô
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The Nun
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No Greater Love
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Love Comes with Youth
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Gone in the Rain
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Frankie the Milkman
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Shiawase wa doko ni
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A Portrait of Shunkin
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Beyond the Green Hills
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Virgin Road
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Black Art Collection -Testimony-
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The Wild Daisy
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Homecoming
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Windy Street
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Wakai toppū
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali
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Immoral Lecture
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