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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.
To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006.
He also filmed many Kaidan for television. His last film was 1982's Kaidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Perhaps best remembered as TV's first Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), Chet Allen was also a member of the famous Columbus Boychoir (now the American Boychoir) during that period. Although he made a few other notable appearances over the years, most notably in the film Meet Me at the Fair (1953) with Dan Dailey and Scatman Crothers, and as one of Ezio Pinza's sons on his TV series, Bonino (1953) when his voice changed, so did his life, for the worse. Like many another former child star, he drifted from job to job and, in his case, in and out of psychiatric hospitals. When Menotti himself visited him in Columbus, about a year before his death, he found a bitterly unhappy young man for whom life had been a series of disappointments. "No one could have helped him enough," Menotti would later say. In 1984, at the age of 44, Chet Allen killed himself by taking five times the fatal dosage of the prescription anti-depressant he'd been taking.- Sound Department
Leslie I. Carey was born on 3 August 1895 in Alberta, Canada. He is known for Touch of Evil (1958), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). He died on 17 June 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ed Preble was born on 9 November 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Startime (1959) and Naked City (1958). He died on 17 June 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Milbourne Christopher was born on 23 March 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Magiskt (1993), Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962) and Producers' Showcase (1954). He died on 17 June 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Klavdiya Shulzhenko was born on 24 March 1906 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She died on 17 June 1984 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Sigizmund Kats was born on 4 April 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a composer, known for Boksyory (1941), The Car 22-12 (1949) and Pencil on Lead (1948). He died on 17 June 1984 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Jim Hegan was born on 3 August 1920 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Kid from Cleveland (1949), 1954 World Series (1954) and 1948 World Series (1948). He died on 17 June 1984 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA.
- John Murray was born on 11 October 1906 in New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Room Service (1938), Step Lively (1944) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He died on 17 June 1984 in Connecticut, USA.