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unusual facts about Tomu Uchida


Tomu Uchida

In April 2008 the cinematheque at the Brooklyn Academy of Music presented the first comprehensive retrospective of the long overlooked Japanese director in the United States.


Tsutomu Minakami

He followed this in 1962 with Kiga kaikyô (Starvation Straits, 1962) which was made into a film under the same name by Tomu Uchida (A Fugitive from the Past, 1965), and Kiri to kage (Fog and Shadows, 1963), then novels dealing with women's concerns, including Gobanchô Yûgiri-rô (The Pavilion of the Evening Mist at Gobanchô, 1963) and Echizen takeningyô (The Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, 1964).


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