Hideo Sekigawa

Hideo Sekigawa 関 川 秀雄 Sekigawa Hideo 1 December 1908 16 December 1977 was a Japanese film director known mainly for films with a leftwing agenda made in the late 1940s and early 1950s His most noted works are the antiwar films Listen to the Voices of the Sea 1950 and Hiroshima 1953 Hideo Sekigawa joined the documentary branch of PCL film studios later Toho in the 1930s where he worked on militarist propaganda films despite his Communist leanings After the Second World War Sekigawa debuted as codirector of the prounionist Those Who Make Tomorrow 1946 which was intended to illustrate the purpose of the workers union at the Toho film studios Having difficulties finding work due to his political leanings he directed the antiwar film Listen to the Voices of the Sea for Mitsuo Makinos Toyoko Eiga company later Toei Company For the Japan Teachers Union which had been unhappy with Kaneto Shindos Children of Hiroshima for not being political enough he directed Hiroshima 1953 in a semidocumentary style parts of which were later used uncredited by Alain Resnais for his drama Hiroshima mon amour In later years Sekigawas output included both audienceorientated genre works and documentaries His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono