Katsumi Nishikawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese film director
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Place of Birth: Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
About Katsumi Nishikawa
- Katsumi Nishikawa (????, 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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