[KineJapan] Just completed my blog project to review all 29 of Uchida Tomu's surviving films

[Earl Jackson]

Thank you so much! What an achievement and resource!
Earl Jackson
Professor, Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz, US


On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM johndavidbaldwin--- via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> I want to let the list know that my four-year project to review all 29 of
> Uchida Tomu's surviving films (11 prewar films; 18 postwar films) has
> finally been completed. Today I submitted a post entitled "Coda,"
> explaining my complex feelings about Uchida and the project, which appeared
> exactly four years after my very first post (the "Introduction") appeared.
>
> The films were reviewed non-chronologically. The final review I posted
> (yesterday) was for the super-rare Toei film *Rebellion from Below*
> (1956), based on Schiller's play *William Tell*. (Yes, the hero shoots an
> apple -- actually a Japanese persimmon -- on his son's head.)  I had to
> travel to Japan from New York twice (in 2022, while the country was still
> under COVID lockdown, and this year) to see several of the films.
>
> I hope this site will be a valuable resource for those interested in
> Uchida's cinema and in the fascinating eras (from the early 1920s to the
> early 1970s) in which he worked.
>
> The blog/website can be found at uchidatomu.com.
>
> Jack Baldwin
> New York
>
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