Tomu Uchida is a Japanese actor, director and screenwriter. He was called the creator of the new film realism. His real name is Tsunejiro Uchida.
Biography and career
Tom was born on April 26, 1898 and died on August 7, 1970. His homeland is Okayama. After completing his secondary education, Tomu left his family for Yokohama. The young man did not immediately connect his life with cinema. At first he had to work at a piano factory. The pseudonym under which he worked appeared in his youth.
Uchida served in the army and later became an actor in Taikatsu. The famous director Tomas Kurihara invited the guy to the 1920 film "Amateur Club", and then took him as an assistant. Uchida preferred Western culture to traditional culture, for example, Anglo-Saxon. He was lucky with a teacher, because Kurihara lived in the United States.
In 1922, Uchida passed to Shozo Makino. He tried his hand at directing the 1922 film "The Brave Police Officer Konishi". At first, he did not work independently, but in tandem with Teinosuke Kinugasa. Tomu then came to Tokyo again to study with Shojiro Sawade. He even got a recommendation from Junichiro Tanizaki. However, after watching the play with his idol, Tomu was disappointed and changed his mind.
Creation
Director Tomu Uchida has about 40 films to his credit. The most rated of them are "The Fugitive from the Past" in 1965 and "The Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji" in 1955. The Fugitive from the Past stars Rantaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Koji Mitsui, Yoshi Kato, Sadako Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Akiko Kazami, Seiichiro Kameishi, Shusuke Sone and Mitsuo Ando. The picture tells about the life of a criminal who betrayed his accomplices and fled with a lot of money. The film "Bloodied Spear on Mount Fuji" was written by Shintaro Mimura and Yahiro Fuji and stars such as Chiezo Kataoka, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa, Yuriko Tashiro, Daisuke Kato and Eitaro Shindo. This is an adventure drama about a young samurai.
In the 1920s, Tomu directed the dramas Boots, The Three-Day Competition and The Living Puppet. From his work of the 1930s, one can single out the films Jean Valjean, based on a script by Masashi Kobayashi based on the work of Victor Hugo, The Daring Avenger with Denjiro Okochi, Yutaka Mimasu and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles, and Earth based on a script by Tsutomu Kitamura, Yasutaro Yagi and Takashi Nagatsuka.
In the 1950s, Uchida directed such films as The Emptiness I Created, Daibosatsu Pass 2: Souls in the Moonlight, and The Story of Lovers in Naniwa. Filmography of the 1960s Tomu includes such films as "The Tale of the Cursed Blade: The Killing of a Beauty in Yoshiwara" and "The Tale of Two Yakuza: Hishakaku and Kiratsune", and "Miyamoto Musashi: Understanding the Style of Two Swords", "Miyamoto Musashi: Duel by Mount Hannya "," Miyamoto Musashi: Duel at the Ichiji Temple "and" Miyamoto Musashi: Duel on the Island ", where the main character was played by Kinnosuke Nakamura.
