Hiromichi Horikawa
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday28 December 1916
Died5 September 2012 (age 95)
Place of birthKyoto Prefecture, Japan
Known credits34
Biography
Hiromichi Horikawa (28 November 1916 – 5 September 2012) was a Japanese director and assistant director. Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954), Horikawa never achieved his mentor’s fame. Kurosawa himself scripted his directorial debut, Tomorrow I’ll Be a Fire-Tree (1955), about an adolescent and the first three women in his life. A concern with youthful experience was also visible in Horikawa’s second and third films, Summer in Eclipse (1956), a taiyōzoku (“sun tribe”) film based on a Shintarō Ishihara novel, and Last Days of the Samurai …
Kurosawa
2000 · Self
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995 · Director
War and Flowers
1989 · Director
Mutchan
1985 · Director
Have Wings on Your Heart
1978 · Director
Have Wings on Your Heart
1978 · Screenplay
The Alaska Story
1977 · Director
Without Complaint
1975 · Director
The King
1973 · Director
School Festival Night: A Sweet Experience
1970 · Director
The Militarists
1970 · Director
Sun Above, Death Below
1968 · Director
Good-bye Moscow
1968 · Director
You Can If You Try
1965 · Director
The Last Judgment
1965 · Director
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964 · Director
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
1964 · Director
Brand of Evil
1964 · Screenplay
Brand of Evil
1964 · Director
The Prodigal Son
1964 · Director
Pressure of Guilt
1963 · Director
Musume to watashi
1962 · Director
A Cat and Dried Bonito Flakes: The Story of a Swindler
1961 · Director
Eternity of Love
1961 · Director
Eternity of Love
1961 · Writer
The Blue Beast
1960 · Director
The Lost Alibi
1960 · Director
The Path Under the Platanes
1959 · Director
The Naked General
1958 · Director
The Oil-Hell Murder
1957 · Director
Last Days of the Samurai
1957 · Director
Summer in Eclipse
1956 · Director
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955 · Director
Seven Samurai
1954 · Assistant Director
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953 · Assistant Director
Ikiru
1952 · Assistant Director
Wedding March
1951 · Assistant Director
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