In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Tomu Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for arguably ...

Prostitutes, policemen and gangsters. Not another gubernatorial fiasco, it’s “Tomu Uchida: Discovering a Japanese Master,” a film series celebrating the work of the late director coming to ...

EVEN the film buffs who put Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai near the top of their all-time favourite lists don't know much about fellow Japanese director Tomu Uchida. Born in 1898, Uchida died in 1970 ...

One of the particular pleasures of film geekdom is discovering the work of a director whose oeuvre, though unified by filmmaking acumen, quality, and vision, has no name recognition attached to it and ...

Cinematheque’s retrospective of the work of little-known Japanese director Tomu Uchida kicks off tonight with a screening of what’s got to be one of the weirdest films in any language. The Mad Fox is ...

Praised by Japanese film critics and much admired by his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Tomu Uchida nonetheless remains a little-known in the west. His 1955 masterpiece Bloody Spear ...

A movie as stylish and surprising as Tomu Uchida's The Mad Fox had to crawl out of the dustbin of movie history some day. An almost indescribably odd hybrid of folk tale and melodrama, The Mad Fox has ...

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 ...

In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Tomu Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for arguably ...

Lost film directed by Tomu Uchida This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of ...

The sequel Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga killed the hopes of the other films in contention for the top spot at the box office. Joaquin Phoenix once again excels in the ...