Tomu Uchida at the BFI Southbank, London, December 2007

[Jasper Sharp]

"A consummate stylist, director of superior genre films and shrewd social critic, Tomu Uchida has too long been neglected in the West."


Coming to the British Film Institute throughout December is a dazzling new 16-film retrospective of the director Tomu Uchida, put together by Alex Jacoby and Midnight Eye's Jasper Sharp. Both will be on hand to introduce a number of the films, while Jasper Sharp will be involved in a panel discussion on December 5th with Tony Rayns, Julian Stringer and Isolde Standish entitled "What's Japanese Cinema Got to Do With it?

See the BFI homepage for scheduling details:
www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/seasons/uchida/

The season will be playing in a slimmed down version of The OUtsiders, A Hole of My Own Making, A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji and Twilight Salooon at the Bristol Arnolfini (www.arnolfini.org.uk/) in January and also at the Edinburgh Filmhouse (www.filmhousecinema.com/).

Reviews of the films can be found on Midnight Eye from our round-up of the 2004 Tokyo FilmEx festival and an indepth look at the first ever Japanese "Western", The Outsiders. 

www.midnighteye.com/reviews/round-up_011.shtml
www.midnighteye.com/reviews/outsiders.shtml


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