Hideo Sekigawa

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-12-01 (69 years old)

Deathday

1977-12-16

Place of Birth

Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Hideo Sekigawa

Biography

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 a...

Production

1957

Roar and Earth

as Director

1968

1969

Sky Scraper!

as Director

1953

Hiroshima

as Director

1965

Vermin

as Director

1959

A Dead Drifter

as Director

1961

1947

1941

White Heron

as Assistant Director

1965

Dupe

as Director

1960

1968

1965

Sex Peddlers

as Director

1966

1960

1950

Senka o koete

as Director

1948

A Second Life

as Director

1960

The Great Road

as Director

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