Katsumi Nishikawa

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Katsumi Nishikawa (1918–2010) was a Japanese film director best known for his youth films. After graduating from Nihon University, he began at Shochiku in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkatsu in 1954 and made many films, especially popular are his seishun eiga starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yujiro Ishihara, and Hideki Takahashi. In the 1970s he remade some of these with idol singer Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura. In 2001, his hometown Chizu, Tottori opened the Katsumi Nishikawa Memorial Film Museum. He published several books, including about his war experiences and about filming The Dancing Girl of Izu. He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2010.