Katsumi Nishikawa
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-07-01 (92 years old)
Deathday
2010-04-06
Place of Birth
Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Кацуми Нисикава
Katsumi Nishikawa
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, Totto...
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