Tomu Uchida
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-04-26 (72 years old)
Deathday
1970-08-07
Place of Birth
Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Тому Утида
Tomu Uchida
Biography
Uchida started out at the Taikatsu studio in the early 1920s, but came to prominence at Nikkatsu, adapting literary works with the screenwriter Yasutarō Yagi in a realist style. His 1929 film A Living Puppet (Ikeru ningyo) was selected as the fourth best film of the year by the film journal, Kinema Junpo. Many of his 1930s films featured the actor Isamu Kosugi. One such work, Policeman (Keisatsukan), has been called "a tremendously stylish gangster movie about the love-hate relationship between a cop and a criminal, once childhood friends" It is Uchida’s only surviving complete silent film. Uchida borrows from Hollywood gangster films and exp...
Production
1940
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1955
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1957
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1939
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1961
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1962
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1962
1971
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1965
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1964
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1963
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1964
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1955
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1959
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1965
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1936
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1960
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1933
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1958
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1959
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1962
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1931
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1955
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1931
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1937
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1963
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1958
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1931
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1925
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1929
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1957
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1957
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1956
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1960
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1968
1934
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1925
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1936
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1956
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1930
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1965
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1922
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1929
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1937
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1957
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1927
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