Years active 1938 – 1982 Name Nobuo Nakagawa | Role Film director Died June 17, 1984 | |
Parents Sono Nakagawa, Takejiro Nakagawa Movies The Sinners of Hell, The Ghost of Yotsuya, Nakagawa Nobuo: The Lady, Kaidan Kasane‑ga‑fuchi, Black Cat Mansion Similar People Shigeru Amachi, Yoichi Numata, Ko Nishimura, Yoko Mihara, Tetsuro Tamba | ||
Pneumaton song for japan excerpts from jigoku 1960 nobuo nakagawa
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.
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- Pneumaton song for japan excerpts from jigoku 1960 nobuo nakagawa
- Nobuo Nakagawa The Bloodthirsty Moth 1956 clip
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Nobuo Nakagawa. The Bloodthirsty Moth. 1956 (clip)
Career
Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to the Kinema Junpō film magazine. He joined Makino Film Productions in 1929 as an assistant director and worked under Masahiro Makino. When that studio went bankrupt in 1932, he switched to Utaemon Ichikawa's production company and made his debut as a director in 1934 with Yumiya Hachiman Ken. He later moved to Toho, where he made comedies starring Enoken and even documentaries during the war. It was at Shintoho after the war that he became known for his cinematic adaptations of Japanese kaidan, especially his masterful version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan in 1959.
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.
He also filmed many kaidan for television. His last film was 1982's Kaidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji.
Filmography
(incomplete)