Tomu Uchida
April 26, 1898 · 128 years old
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…
Known For
3 titles
A Fugitive from the Past
Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.
Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until i...