Katsumi Nishikawa

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 Kawabatas The Dancing Girl of Izu several times He died of pneumonia on April 6 2010