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Hideo Sekigawa

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Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 1, 1908 (117 years old)

Place of Birth
Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Hideo Sekigawa

Biography

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 left-wing agenda made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His most noted works are the anti-war films Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) and Hiroshima (1953).

Hideo Sekigawa joined the documentary branch of P.C.L. 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 co-director of the pro-unionist 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 anti-war film Listen to the Voices of the Sea for Mitsuo Makino's Toyoko Eiga company (later Toei Company). For the Japan Teachers Union, which had been unhappy with Kaneto Shindo's Children of Hiroshima for not being political enough, he directed Hiroshima (1953) in a semi-documentary style, parts of which were later used (uncredited) by Alain Resnais for his drama Hiroshima mon amour. In later years, Sekigawa's output included both audience-orientated genre works and documentaries. His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono.

Known For

Directing

1969Sky Scraper!...Director
1968Devil in My Flesh...Director
1968Tattooed Temptress...Director
1968Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii...Director
1966A Thousand Suspects...Director
1965Dupe...Director
1965Vermin...Director
1965Sex Peddlers...Director
1963Tokyo Untouchable: Escape...Director
1962あの空の果てに星はまたたく...Director
1961Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery...Director
1961Like Fire is My Life...Director
1960Devotion to Railway...Director
1960Tale of Young Drifter 2...Director
1960Tale of Young Drifter...Director
1960The Great Road...Director
1959The Silent Murder...Director
1959A Dead Drifter...Director
1958Beyond the Seasonal Wind...Director
1957Roar and Earth...Director
1957The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend...Director
1957Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki...Director
1957Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon...Director
1956Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer...Director
1956Seishun no oto...Director
1956The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi...Director
1955A Trumpet Boy...Director
1953Hiroshima...Director
1952August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan...Director
1950Senka o koete...Director
1950Listen to the Voices of the Sea...Director
1948A Second Life...Director
1947Chikagai nijuyojikan...Director
1946Those Who Make Tomorrow...Director
1941White Heron...Assistant Director

Acting