Nobuo Nakagawa
Nobuo Nakagawa | |
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Born | Kyoto, Japan | 18 April 1905
Died | 17 June 1984 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 79)
Occupation(s) | film director, screenwriter, editor |
Years active | 1938 – 1982 |
Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫, Nakagawa Nobuo, April 18, 1905 – June 17, 1984) was a Japanese
horror films
he made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Career
Born in
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
in 1959.
To Western audiences, his most famous film is Criterion Collection in 2006.
He also filmed many kaidan for television. His last film was 1982's Kaidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji.
Filmography
(incomplete)
- Gekka no Wakamusha (1938)
- Itahachi Jima (1938)
- Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no Maki (1939)
- Tange Sazen: Sekigan no Maki (1939)
- Rinchi (1949)
- Shinya no Kokuhaku (1949)
- Wakasama Samurai Torimonocho: Nazo no Nomen Yashiki (1950)
- Kyo wa Kaisha no Getsuyobi (1952)
- Kinsan Torimonocho: Nazo no Ningyoshi (1953)
- Shishun no Izumi (1953)
- Horafuki Tanji (1954)
- Wakaki Hi no Takuboku: Kumo wa Tensai de aru (1954)
- Natsume Soseki no Sanshiro (1955)
- Ningyo Sashichi Torimonocho Yoen Roku Shibijin (1956)
- Kaii Utsunomiya Tsuritenjo (1956)
- Koi sugata kitsune goten(1956)
- Vampire Moth (Kyuketsuki-ga) (1956)
- Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (1957) aka The Depths, aka The Ghost of Kasane Swamp
- Borei Kaibyo Yashiki(1958) aka Black Cat Mansion
- Dokufu Takahashi Oden (1958)
- Kenpei to yurei(1958)
- Kyōen Kobanzame (侠艶小判鮫) - first part is Kyōen Kobanzame zenpen (侠艶小判鮫 前篇) and the second part is Kyōen Kobanzame kōhen (侠艶小判鮫 後篇).
- Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan(1959) aka The Ghost of Yotsuya
- Nippon Romansu Kyuko (1959)
- Onna Kyuketsuki (1959) aka Woman Vampire, Lady Vampire
- Onna Shikeishu no Datsugoku (1960) aka Death Row Woman
- Jigoku (1960) aka Hell, Sinners of hell
- Hatamoto Kenka Taka (1961)
- Nendo no Omen Yori: Kaachan (1961)
- Inazuma to Uge no Ketto (1962)
- Kaidan Hebi-onna (1968) aka Ghost of the Snake Woman
- Yoen Dokufuden: Hitokiri Okatsu (1969)
- Yoen Dokufuden: Okatsu Kyojo Tabi (1969)
- Kaidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji (1982)
References
- ^ ISBN 4-87376-208-1.
- ^ a b "Nakagawa Nobuo". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
External links
- Nobuo Nakagawa at IMDb
- "Hell on Earth" essay by Chuck Stephens for The Criterion Collection
- Nobuo Nakagawa at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)