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

[Alexander Jacoby]

I love Uchida and twice co-curated (with Jasper Sharp and Johan Nordstrom
respectively, in London and New York) retrospectives of his films. This is
a marvellous resource. Omedeto!

Best,


ALEX



On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 01:40, Earl Jackson via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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---
> 
> 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
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>>
>> Jack Baldwin
>> New York
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