Biography
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 id...
Complete Filmography

Black Art Collection -Testimony-
2020
Writer
Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a respected...

One Bowl of Kakesoba
1992
Director
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One ...

Virgin Road
1989
Director, Screenplay
Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

My Phoenix
1989
Director
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix

Seito shokun!
1984
Director
Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

The Sea of Sparta
1983
Director
Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much. W...

Sweet Revenge
1977
Director
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, spec...

The Wild Daisy
1977
Director, Screenplay
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue...

A Portrait of Shunkin
1976
Director, Screenplay
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory...

The Sea of Eden
1976
Director
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with...

The Last Song
1975
Director, Cinematography
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his fat...

The Surf
1975
Director
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. ...

The Izu Dancer
1974
Director
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling pe...

Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
1969
Director
A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Director
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting ...

The Spiders' The Road to Bali
1968
Director, Screenplay
The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but ...

Eternal Love
1968
Director
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

Lost Love
1967
Director
Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the ...

Journey to the North
1967
Director
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. Howe...

The Swan Elegy
1966
Director
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between ...

No Greater Love
1966
Screenplay, Director
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as ...

Tomo o okuru uta
1966
Director

Night of Sorrow
1966
Director
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

The Four Loves
1965
Director
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of...

Song of Farewell
1965
Director
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part wa...

Homecoming
1964
Writer, Director
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...

Love Comes with Youth
1963
Writer, Director
During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Y...

Gone in the Rain
1963
Screenplay, Director
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from t...

Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Director, Writer
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to ...

Fresh Leaves
1962
Director
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. ...

Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
1962
Director
1962 Japanese movie

Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Director
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Seinen no isu
1962
Director
1962 Japanese movie

Kimagure tosei
1962
Director
1962 Japanese movie

Kusa wo karu musume
1961
Director
1961 Japanese movie

Pursuit
1961
Director
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Doing What I Please
1961
Director
Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that ha...

Ore no furusato wa dai seibu
1960
Director
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had ...

Shippû kozô
1960
Director

Wakai toppū
1960
Director, Screenplay
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her ...

六三制愚連隊
1960
Director
I'm going to help that rebel guy! Young people burst into rage, roaring with dreams and hopes! The sense of justice and humanism of these second-gener...

Tatsumaki kozō
1960
Director
Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after drivi...

Windy Street
1959
Director, Screenplay

Downhill Youth
1959
Director

Beneath the Gallows
1959
Director
Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, and deductions lead to more deductions in this bizar...

Immoral Lecture
1959
Director, Screenplay

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958
Director
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his re...

The Nun
1958
Screenplay, Director

Frankie the Milkman
1956
Screenplay
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...

Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Director, Screenplay
Family of Sorrow
1956
Director
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1956
Screenplay, Director
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name...

Striving to Live
1955
Director
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in troubl...

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953
Assistant Director
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent ...