About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1908-12-01
Place of birth:
Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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Hideo Sekigawa

Overview

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

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1969 Sky Scraper! Directing Director N/A
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1968 Devil in My Flesh Directing Director N/A
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1968 Tattooed Temptress Directing Director N/A
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1968 Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii Directing Director N/A
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1966 A Thousand Suspects Directing Director N/A
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1965 Dupe Directing Director N/A
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1965 Vermin Directing Director N/A
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1965 Sex Peddlers Directing Director N/A
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1963 Tokyo Untouchable: Escape Directing Director N/A
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1962 あの空の果てに星はまたたく Directing Director N/A
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1961 Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery Directing Director N/A
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1960 Devotion to Railway Directing Director 59
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1960 Tale of Young Drifter 2 Directing Director N/A
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1960 Tale of Young Drifter Directing Director N/A
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1960 The Great Road Directing Director N/A
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1959 A Dead Drifter Directing Director N/A
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1958 Beyond the Seasonal Wind Directing Director N/A
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1957 Roar and Earth Directing Director 58
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1957 The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend Directing Director N/A
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1957 Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki Directing Director N/A
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1957 Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon Directing Director N/A
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1956 Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer Directing Director N/A
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1956 The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi Directing Director N/A
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1953 Hiroshima Directing Director 59
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1950 Senka o koete Directing Director N/A
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1950 Listen to the Voices of the Sea Directing Director 58
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1948 A Second Life Directing Director N/A
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1947 Chikagai nijuyojikan Directing Director N/A
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1946 Those Who Make Tomorrow Directing Director 59
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1941 White Heron Directing Assistant Director N/A
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