Nobuo Nakagawa

director, writer, second unit director or assistant director

Nobuo Nakagawa was born on Apr 18, 1905 in Japan. Nobuo Nakagawa's big-screen debut came with Banba no Chûtarô directed by Nobuo Nakagawa in 1955. Nobuo Nakagawa is known for 'Nendo no omen' yori: kaachan directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, Yûnosuke Itô stars as Toyoda Yoshigurô and Yûko Mochizuki as Wife Oyuki. The most recent award Nobuo Nakagawa achieved is Yokohama Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Nobuo Nakagawa plays is 'Nendo no omen' yori: kaachan which will be released on Mar 15, 1961.

Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews for the Kinema Junpo 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.