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| | Tomu Uchida |
 | | When Tomu Uchida died of cancer in 1970, Sight and Sound recorded, in one line, the demise of a “veteran Japanese director, little known in the West.” (1) Thirty-five years later, this situation has barely changed. |
| | A Hole of My Own Making, Uchida's other 1955 film with a contemporary setting, is similarly creative in its use of sound; the bleak drama of conflict within a family is underscored by the repeated noise of construction work, or the scream of American jets overhead. |
| | The film is divided into three segments, each of different timbre: the first, an action-packed account of Inukai's flight; the second, a bleak and realistic study of the life in Tokyo of the lovelorn prostitute; the third, an account of the psychological duel between cop and criminal. |
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