Shungicu Uchida
Shigeko Uchida (内田 滋子, Uchida Shigeko), known by the pen name Shungicu Uchida (内田春菊, Uchida Shungiku), is a Japanese
Biography
She was born August 7, 1959, in
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
Her representative works include
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.[4]
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
- Akumu Tantei 2a.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)
- Stacya.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
- 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)
References
- ^ "Uchida, Shungiku". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ "Информационная система Панлог. Всё обо всём" (in Russian). Archived from the original on February 21, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
- ISBN 978-1-77046-563-3.
- ^ "Shungiku Uchida - Lambiek Comiclopedia".
- "Shungiku Uchida". IMDb.
External links
- (in Japanese) Profile at Knockout
- Shungicu Uchida at Anime News Network's encyclopedia