Katsumi Nishikawa (西河克己, Nishikawa Katsumi) (1 July 1918 â€" 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.
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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