Uchida Tomu began his career playing bizarre characters in film, but then became a production assistant. He later joined the Nikkatsu company , where he became assistant director and worked on silent film comedies. From the mid-1930s, he joined the movement that advocated greater realism in film and more literary film adaptation.
In 1943 Uchida went to Manchuria , then Japanese , to make films there. He was captured at the end of the Pacific War , until 1954. After his return, he joined the Tōei film company . There he dealt extensively with the remake of classic films, the three-part epic "Daibosatsu tōge" (大 菩薩 峠) and the five-part epic "Miyamoto Musashi", which relates to the life and work of the swordsman and philosopher Miyamoto Musashi (1584– 1645) refers. His masterpiece after 1945, however, is "Kiga Kaikyō" (飢餓 海峡) - something like "Strait of Hunger", the film adaptation of a novel by Mizukami Tsutomu . It's a compassionate film about a criminal's fate.
Filmography
Pre-war films
Aakonishi junsa (噫 小 西 巡査), 1922, debut as a director
