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Tomu Uchida (内田吐夢, Uchida Tomu, 26 April 1898 – 7 August 1970), born Tsunejirō Uchida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Uchida chose the stage name Tomu, a transliteration of the English Tom, written in Kanji characters meaning "to spit out dreams".
Tomu Uchida was born on 26 April 1898 in Okayama, Okayama, Japan. He was a director and actor, known for Earth (1939), A Fugitive from the Past (1965) and Miyamoto Musashi VI (1971). He died on 7 August 1970 in Japan.
- Director, Actor, Writer
- April 26, 1898
- Tomu Uchida
- August 7, 1970
Jul 22, 2005 · Uchida was born in 1898 in the western city of Okayama; the personal name Tomu, which he took later, was a transliteration of the English Tom, and speaks for his early interest in Western culture. To write it, he chose characters with the meaning, “To spit out dreams.”
- Alexander Jacoby
"An artful stylist and shrewd social critic, the Japanese filmmaker Tomu Uchida left an illustrious body of work little seen or acknowledged outside his home country.
A club for fans of the great Uchida Tomu. To find an Uchida film you like or are interested in exploring, you can: a) enter the English or Romanized title in the search engine, b) click on the relevant blog post (the posts are not in chronological order); or c) go to the Filmography page (which is in chronological order) under the About Uchida ...
Oct 21, 2016 · Oct 21–Nov 7, 2016. An artful stylist and shrewd social critic, the Japanese filmmaker Tomu Uchida (1898–1970) left an illustrious body of work little seen or acknowledged outside his home country.
UCHIDA Tomu (1898-1970, Japan) is often regarded as one of the great overlooked Japanese filmmakers. He spent his early years in the lower social strata and worked as a piano tuner. He moved to Tokyo in the early 1920s, and became one of the most important pre-war directors after making A Living Puppet (1929).
