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Hideo Sekigawa

April 11, 2024

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).[1]

Hideo Sekigawa
Born(1908-12-01)1 December 1908
Sado, Japan
Died16 December 1977(1977-12-16) (aged 69)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationFilm director
Years active1946–1969

Life edit

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.[1][2] 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).[2] 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.[3] In later years, Sekigawa's output included both audience-orientated genre works and documentaries. His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono.

Selected filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
  2. ^ a b Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.
  3. ^ Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Revised ed.). Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9.

External links edit

  • Hideo Sekigawa at IMDb
  • "関川秀雄 (Hideo Sekigawa)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  • "関川秀雄 (Hideo Sekigawa)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  • "Hideo Sekigawa in the Dictionnaire du Cinéma – Édition 2001". larousse.fr. Retrieved 4 February 2021.

April 11, 2024
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