Uchida graduated from San Francisco State University's cinema program in 1998, where he learned screenwriting and film production in everything from 8mm to 35mm. After returning to Japan, he made the independent comedy Weekend Blues, which won the Grand Prize at the 24th Pia Film Festival. This also earned Uchida the PFF scholarship, which financed his first theatrically released feature, A Stranger of Mine. The film also won four awards at Critic's Week in Cannes, 2005. After a couple years of intense planning and writing, Uchida made After School, another meticulously plotted, innovative piece of story telling. Both this and Key of Life garnered Uchida nominations for best screenplay at the Japanese Academy
Awards Awards.
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