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

[Caitlin Casiello]

Quite amazing! Congratulations, a valuable resource on overlooked films.

Caitlin Casiello

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 2:30 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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