Nobuo Nakagawa

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Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫 Nakagawa Nobuo?, 18 April 1905 — June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nakagawa began his film career as an apprentice to Masahiro Makino in 1934 and made his directorial debut with Itahachi Jima (1938).

To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006.

His last film was 1982's Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji.

[edit] Filmography

  • Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji (1982)
  • Yoen dokufuden: Hitokiri okatsu (1969)
  • Yoen dokufuden: okatsu kyojo tabi (1969)
  • Kaidan hebi-onna (1968)
  • Inazuma to uge no kettô (1962)
  • Hatamoto kenka taka (1961)
  • Nendo no omen' yori: kaachan (1961)
  • Jigoku (1960)
  • Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959)
  • Nippon romansu kyuko (1959)
  • Onna kyuketsuki (1959)
  • Borei kaibyo yashiki (1958)
  • Dokufu Takahashi oden (1958)
  • Kenpei to yurei (1958)
  • Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (1957)
  • Ningyo Sashichi torimonocho yoen roku shibijin (1956)
  • Kaii Utsunomiya tsuritenjo (1956)
  • Koi sugata kitsune goten (1956)
  • Kyuketsuki-ga (1956)
  • Natsume Soseki no Sanshirô (1955)
  • Horafuki tanji (1954)
  • Wakaki hi no takuboku: Kumo wa tensai de aru (1954)
  • Kinsan torimonochô: nazo no ningyôshi (1953)
  • Shishun no izumi (1953)
  • Kyo wa kaisha no getsuyobi (1952)
  • Wakasama samurai torimonochô: nazo no nômen yashiki (1950)
  • Rinchi (1949)
  • Shinya no kokuhaku (1949)
  • Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki (1939)
  • Tange Sazen: sekigan no maki (1939)
  • Gekka no wakamusha (1938)
  • Itahachi jima (1938)


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