Hideo Sekigawa

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

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]

  1. ^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.