Shungicu Uchida
Shigeko Uchida, known by the pen name 内田春菊, is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.
Shungicu Uchida
- Born
- 1959 · Nagasaki.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- actress · novelist · singer · mangaka · essayist · writer · film director
- Fields
- essay
- Education
- Keio University
- Known for
- Minami's Girlfriend · Denko-chan · The Girl of Silence
- Honours
- Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shigeko Uchida, known by the pen name 内田春菊, is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.
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Biography
Shungicu Uchida studied at Keio University. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is essay. Works named in the authority record are Minami's Girlfriend, Denko-chan and The Girl of Silence. Distinctions recorded are Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award.
She was born August 7, 1959, in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Her father left the family when she and her younger sister were in primary school. Her mother was a dance teacher and bar hostess, who soon began living with another dance instructor, and later remarried. Shungiku was often forced to sleep with her stepfather, and her mother would allow it. One of Shungiku's happiest memories from her childhood was getting a ream of rough paper from her fourth grade teacher, as a gift for saying that her dream was to become a manga artist. Shungiku dropped out of high school in her second year and worked in restaurants, bars, in a printshop, and as a domestic. Sometimes she slept under bridges. Five years later she left Nagasaki for Tokyo with her beloved manga and $7,000 in savings. She graduated from Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Minami High School. She then attended Keio University, majoring in philosophy in the Department of Literature, but left before completing a degree. Uchida is currently represented by the talent management firm Knockout. She published her first works in erotic magazines. Together with other female artists who worked for hentai magazines such as Kyoko Okazaki, Erica Sakurazawa and Yōko Kondo, she is sometimes referred to as "onna no ko H mangaka" ("women H cartoonists"). Her representative works include Wakaokusama Tamajigoku and Minami-kun no Koibito (which was later adapted into three drama series). Uchida is also known as "Denko-chan", the mascot character for The Tokyo Electric Power Company. Besides a career as a manga artist, she is also active with music and as a novelist. She wrote a controversial semi-autobiographical book called "Fatherfucker" which was also made into a live-action movie.
Manga
Manga
• Shiirakansu Brains (1984) • Minami-kun no Koibito (南くんの恋人, 1986–1987, published in Garo) • Nami no Ma Ni Ma Ni (subtitled "An Old-fashioned Love Elegy") (1988) • Isshinjō no Tsugō ("A Personal Affair") (1988) • Maboroshi no Futsū Shōjo ("The Illusory Ordinary Girl") (1991) • Kedarui Yoru ni (1992) • Monokage ni Ashibyōshi ("Marking Time in the Shadows") (1992) • Watashitachi wa Hanshoku Shite ("We Are Reproducing") (1994) • Omae no Kaa-chan Bitch! (1994) • Me wo Tojite Daite ("Close Your Eyes And Hold Me") 目を閉じて抱いて (1996-2000) 5 Volumes, published in Shodensha 祥伝社 FEELコミックス
Filmography
Filmography
• Akumu Tantei 2 a.k.a. Nightmare Detective 2 • Gumi. Chocolate. Pine (2007) • Kyacchi boruya (2006) • Kain no matsuei a.k.a. Cain's Descendant • Ame no machi a.k.a. The Vanished (2006) • Yokubo a.k.a. Desire (2006) • Yumeno (2005) • Tsuki to Cherry (2004) • Koi no mon a.k.a. Otakus in Love(2004) • Mask de 41 (2004) • Showa Kayo Daizenshu a.k.a. Karaoke Terror (2003) • Stacy a.k.a. Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001) • Bijitâ Q a.k.a. Love Cinema Vol. 6 and Visitor Q (2001) • Kao (2000)
Television
Television
• Gakko no kaidan G (1998) • Love Letter (1998) • Gozonji! Fundoshi zukin (1997) • Hotaru no yado (1997) • Skip (1996) (TV) • Otenki-oneesan (1996) • Midori (1996) • Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996) • Muma (1994)
Identity
Identity
Shungicu Uchida is recorded with the occupation essayist. Recorded as actress, novelist, singer, mangaka and essayist.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1959
Shungicu Uchida was born on 7 August 1959.
1988
Denko-chan is dated 1988.
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- 1.[https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb2/JAP/Berichte/J-Bungaku/Gebhardt.pdf Lisette Gebhardt: „J-Bungaku“. Kleines Kolloquium zur japanischen Literatur der 90er Jahre: Von „J-Pop“ über die „Neuen Schwierigen“ bis zur Thematisierung von Asien und kultureller Identität (ab Seite 9)] Universität Trier, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 2.Uchida Shungicu. Japanese artist and author Encyclopædia Britannica, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 3.Lisette Gebhardt: Wie die japanische Literatur das Prekariat entdeckt: Freeter, NEETS, hikikomori, otaku und andere Problemfälle Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 4.Shungiku Uchida. Wenn der Morgen kommt, werde ich traurig. 1995. 3-455-11053-3.
- 5.Shungiku Uchida. (b. 7 August 1959, Japan) Lambiek Comiclopedia, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 6.Omae no kaachan bitch! Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 7.Visitor Q (2001) Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 8.Minami kun no koibito Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 9.Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken. Horrorfilm Kino.de, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 10.Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. Originaltitel: Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 11.Shungiku Uchida. Biography Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
- 12.Arufa Uchida. Biography Internet Movie Database, aufgerufen am 31. Mai 2022
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