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Übermensch (album)

Übermensch (위버맨쉬) is G-Dragon's third studio album, released February 25, 2025 by Galaxy Corporation/EMPIRE; his first full-length since 2013's Coup d'Etat, eight tracks drawing on Nietzsche's Übermensch, followed by a world tour.

Übermensch World Tour

Übermensch World Tour (위버맨쉬): G-Dragon's 2025 world tour supporting his album Übermensch, his first since 2017; 39 shows in 17 cities, 12 countries, about 825,000 attendees, ending with a Seoul encore at Gocheok Sky Dome.

Ubhayabhisarika

Ubhayabhisarika (उभयाभिसारिका) is a Sanskrit one-act monologue play attributed to Vararuci, in which a single actor narrates a walk through the courtesans' quarter to reconcile two estranged lovers.

Ubik

Ubik is Philip K. Dick's 1969 science fiction novel. It explores themes of half-life and reality regression, and was included in Time's All-Time 100 Novels.

Ubirajara

Ubirajara is an 1874 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, the last of his three Indianist novels and the only one set entirely in the pre-Columbian indigenous world, with no European characters.

Uboa

Uboa is the alias of Xandra Metcalfe, a trans Australian noise, dark ambient and death industrial musician from Melbourne. Albums include The Origin of My Depression (2019) and The Flenser-released Impossible Light (2024); the name comes from Yume Nikki.

Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi (Ubu roi) is Alfred Jarry's 1896 five-act burlesque play about Père Ubu, who seizes the throne of Poland. Its premiere at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre on 10 December 1896 caused a scandal with the word "merdre", and it became a precursor of Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd.

Ubud style painting

Ubud style painting is a school of modern Balinese painting that developed in Ubud, Bali, from the 1930s, blending the classical Kamasan tradition with Western perspective and shading.

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) is an annual literary festival in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, founded in 2004 by Janet DeNeefe in response to the 2002 Bali bombings.

Ức Trai thi tập

Ức Trai thi tập, named for Nguyễn Trãi's literary name, is his collection of 105 classical Chinese poems, spanning the Lam Sơn uprising to his retirement at Côn Sơn.

Uccharon

Uccharon was the rock band of Bangladeshi singer Azam Khan, formed after the 1971 Liberation War; it pioneered Bengali Pop, released 16 albums, and was revived in 2025.

Uche Okeke

Uche Okeke (1933–2016) was a Nigerian painter and founding member of the Zaria Art Society whose theory of Natural Synthesis revived the Igbo uli design tradition.

Uchechi Treasure Okonkwo

Uchechi Treasure Okonkwo, known as Adakirikiri, is a Nigerian Nollywood teen actress, gospel singer, and producer born in Owerri in 2010, founder of Adakirikiri TV and a 2024 double Best Teen Actress award winner.

Uchigatana (打刀)

Uchigatana (打刀), the edge-up belt-worn Japanese sword of 2 shaku (60 cm) or more; emerged mid-Muromachi period for infantry fighting, replacing the tachi; today simply called katana.

Uchronia (film)

Uchronia (2026) is a Greek-Netherlands psychedelic docu-essay by Fil Ieropoulos, written by Foivos Dousos, in which Arthur Rimbaud's ghost meets queer revolutionaries; premiered at the 2026 Berlinale Forum Expanded.

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger (宇宙戦隊キュウレンジャー), the 41st Super Sentai series, aired on TV Asahi 2017–2018 in 48 episodes; a space-and-constellation tokusatsu show that began with nine warriors, expanded to twelve, and fought the Space Shogunate Jark Matter.

UCI Cinemas

UCI Cinemas (United Cinemas International) is a European multiplex chain founded in 1989 by Paramount and MCA/Universal, later merged with Odeon under Terra Firma and AMC, operating UCI brands in Germany, Italy, Portugal, and formerly Brazil.

Udaan (2010 film)

Udaan (Hindi "flight") is a 2010 Hindi coming-of-age drama, Vikramaditya Motwane's directorial debut co-written with Anurag Kashyap, about 17-year-old Rohan forced by his authoritarian Jamshedpur father into factory work and engineering while dreaming of writing; it screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2010 and flopped commercially.

Udaan (उड़ान) (2014 TV series)

Udaan (Udann Sapnon Ki, उड़ान सपनों की) is an Indian Hindi social drama on Colors TV (2014–2019) about Chakor, a girl pawned before birth as collateral and forced into bonded labour, conceptualized by Mahesh Bhatt from a TIME magazine story.

Udaari (اڑاری)

Udaari (اڑاری), a 2016 Pakistani Urdu-Punjabi Hum TV drama serial of 25 episodes written by Farhat Ishtiaq, directed by Ehteshamuddin, and co-produced by Kashf Foundation, treats child sexual abuse and women's empowerment and won Lux Style Awards including Best TV Actor for Ahsan Khan.

Udaariyaan

Udaariyaan (उड़ारियां), Hindi romantic drama on Colors TV, 15 March 2021 to 24 July 2024, 1,121 episodes, produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey; Punjab family's Canada dream, sisters Tejo and Jasmine, Fateh, generational leaps.

Udaipur Files

Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder (उदयपुर फाइल्स), also Gyanvapi Files, is a 2025 Hindi crime drama by Bharat S. Shrinate, produced by Amit Jani, about the 2022 Udaipur tailor murder; certified A after 55-61 cuts, released 8 August 2025, box office flop.

Udaipur World Music Festival

The Udaipur World Music Festival is an annual free world music festival held in Udaipur, Rajasthan, each February since 2016, produced by the cultural organization SEHER.

Udas Naslain

Udas Naslain (اداس نسلیں, The Weary Generations) is a 1963 Urdu novel by Abdullah Hussain following three generations of two Punjabi families from 1857 to 1947.

Uday Benegal

Uday Benegal is a Mumbai-based vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist best known as frontman and founder of Indus Creed, the Indian rock band earlier called Rock Machine, active since 1983.

Uday Chopra

Uday Chopra (born 1973), Indian producer and former actor, son of Yash Chopra; played Ali in Dhoom, now CEO of YRF Entertainment and story writer of Alpha (2026).

Uday Kiran (ఉదయ్ కిరణ్)

Uday Kiran (ఉదయ్ కిరణ్), Telugu and Tamil film actor, the "Hat-trick Hero" whose first three films Chitram, Nuvvu Nenu, and Manasantha Nuvve each ran 175+ days; Filmfare Best Actor Telugu 2001; died January 2014 in Hyderabad.

Uday Prakash

Uday Prakash (उदय प्रकाश, born 1952) is a Hindi short-story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mohandas, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010.

Udayan Vajpeyi

Udayan Vajpeyi (उदयन वाजपेयी), born 1960, is a Hindi poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator who teaches Physiology at Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Udayar

Udayar (உடையார்) is a Tamil historical novel by Balakumaran, published in six volumes, depicting Rajaraja Chola I's reign and the construction of the Thanjavur Big Temple.