Katsumi Nishikawa
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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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One Bowl of Kakesoba (1992)
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Striving to Live (1955)
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Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
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The Izu Dancer (1974)
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The Sea of Eden (1976)
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The Surf (1975)
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The Four Loves (1965)
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The Last Song (1975)
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My Hometown is the Wild West (1960)
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Lost Love (1967)
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A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)
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Song of Farewell (1965)
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Love Comes with Youth (1963)
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Sweet Revenge (1977)
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Virgin Road (1989)
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No Greater Love (1966)
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The Swan Elegy (1966)
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali (1968)
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)
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Fresh Leaves (1962)
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Night of Sorrow (1966)
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Tatsumaki kozō (1960)
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Doing What I Please (1961)
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Eternal Love (1968)
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (1958)
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Seito shokun! (1984)
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Kimagure tosei (1962)
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Red Bud and White Flower (1962)
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express (1956)
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Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)
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素っ飛び小僧 (1960)
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Journey to the North (1967)
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The Sea of Sparta (1983)
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The Nun (1958)
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Wakai toppū (1960)
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Family of Sorrow (1956)
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Windy Street (1959)
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六三制愚連隊 (1960)
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Shippû kozô (1960)
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Tomo o okuru uta (1966)
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Beneath the Gallows (1959)
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The Wild Daisy (1977)
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Kusa wo karu musume (1961)
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Seinen no isu (1962)
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Downhill Youth (1959)
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The Man With Starry Eyes (1962)
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Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority (1969)
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Pursuit (1961)
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陽のあたる坂道 (1967)
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Homecoming (1964)
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孤独の人 (1957)
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My Phoenix (1989)
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The Sea of Eden (1963)
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Immoral Lecture (1959)
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Gone in the Rain (1963)
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Two Lovers Point (1977)
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