Nobuo Nakagawa

Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫 Nakagawa Nobuo, 18 April 1905 – June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s.

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.