Writing

Eiichi Uchida

Born 1930-07-31 · Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, theater director and film director. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. His parents' home was an old book store in Okayama City. He dropped out of Kamakura Academy. When he was young, he studied under Kobo Abe. He joined the New Japanese Literary Society and made his debut as a novelist. In 1974 , together with Shoji Kaneko and others, he launched a theater company and was actively engaged in underground theater activities.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Younger Sister poster
3.8

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.

Younger Sister

1974

The Bloody Afternoon poster
8.0

Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.

The Bloody Afternoon

1985

A Pool Without Water poster
5.4

After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas.

A Pool Without Water

1982

Play it, Boogie-Woogie poster
8.0

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

1981

Virgin Blues poster
7.0

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee from the scene and head back home, only to find detectives at their front door.

Virgin Blues

1974

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel poster
6.7

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

1984

Scrap: A Love Story poster
8.0

The film depicts the strange live-in lifestyle of three people: Yasuko, a 14-year-old girl who insists that all things are equal and sex is no exception, Boku, a university student, and Ryosuke, a photographer for Binimoto. M, a girl who was popular for her photo books and videos at the time, plays the role of the girl who lives a carefree life, and is flanked by other celebrities.

Scrap: A Love Story

1984

The Woman with the Red Hat poster
4.7

In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the Japanese, for the first time she thinks she has found her really great love- exotic stranger attracts her. They say a lot, but they do not understand each other - but they can show their love. Nevertheless, the relationship is doomed to failure from the beginning. Disappointment, death and loss.

The Woman with the Red Hat

1982

Summer of Demon poster
6.0

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim...

Summer of Demon

1981

Eien no 1/2 poster
8.0

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

Eien no 1/2

1987

I Hate You... Not poster
9.0

Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script / director is Eiichi Uchida, a scenario writer for "Eien no 1/2", and this is his debut as a director. Gen Takahashi is in charge of shooting. (8 mm)

I Hate You... Not

1991

I Hate You... Not poster
9.0

Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script / director is Eiichi Uchida, a scenario writer for "Eien no 1/2", and this is his debut as a director. Gen Takahashi is in charge of shooting. (8 mm)

I Hate You... Not

1991

Statue in Fire poster
7.5

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

Statue in Fire

1974

Kirai ja nai yo 2 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kirai ja nai yo 2

1992

Kirai ja nai yo 2 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kirai ja nai yo 2

1992