
Hideo Sekigawa
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-12-01
Day of Death
1977-12-16 (69 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
Crew
(1969)
Sky Scraper!
Director
(1968)
Devil in My Flesh
Director
(1968)
Tattooed Temptress
Director
(1968)
(1966)
A Thousand Suspects
Director
(1965)
Vermin
Director
(1965)
Dupe
Director
(1965)
Sex Peddlers
Director
(1963)
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
Director
(1962)
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
Director
(1961)
Like Fire is My Life
Director
(1961)
(1960)
Devotion to Railway
Director
(1960)
Tale of Young Drifter 2
Director
(1960)
Tale of Young Drifter
Director
(1960)
The Great Road
Director
(1959)
A Dead Drifter
Director
(1958)
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Director
(1957)
Roar and Earth
Director
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1956)
The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
Director
(1956)
(1953)
Hiroshima
Director
(1950)
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Director
(1950)
Senka o koete
Director
(1948)
A Second Life
Director
(1947)
Chikagai nijuyojikan
Director
(1946)
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Director
(1941)
White Heron
Assistant Director