Makoto Ueda

Makoto Ueda

Birth : 1979-11-04, Kyoto, Japan

History

Makoto Ueda is a Kyoto-based playwright and screenwriter. He is currently the representative of theater studio EUROPE KIKAKU, and is in charge of directing all performances.

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Makoto Ueda

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かっこいいスキヤキ
Script Supervisor
The Tatami Time Machine Blues
Screenplay
It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.
Meters Away, Worlds Apart
Screenplay
A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Screenplay
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Original Story
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
Project Dreams - How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar
Screenplay
Doi of the Maeda Construction Company's Advertising group has little passion for his work. One day the group's leader Asagawa declares, "Let's build the hangar for Mazinger Z!" Having been dragged in by Asagawa, Doi and his co-workers commence putting on appearances of having taken on this request from a fantasy world.
Penguin Highway
Screenplay
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
A Seaside Weekly Tabloid
Screenplay
A man finds himself on the seashore of a deserted island. He finds a copy of the tabloid weekly "Shukan Taishu" next to him. He decides to wait for help while reading the "Shukan Taishu." While reading the tabloid weekly, his mind wanders into delusions. It so happens, that man's greatest skill is the power of his delusions. As time passes, help does not arrive. His mind drifts into his past where he was always waiting.
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Screenplay
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Bitter Sweet
Screenplay
Maki Eda works for an advertising agency at a large company. She is a single and doesn't have good luck with men. She also isn't very good at cooking and likes eating junk food. One day, she meets Nagisa Katayama. He is an art teacher and a vegetarian. Unlike Maki, Nagisa cooks very well. The two people then happen to live together. Maki realizes that she is in love with Nagisa, but Nagisa is gay. Through his cooking, they solve their own problems and become important to each other.
Howling
Writer
While sleeping in his room, a man hears someone shouting, “Hey, hey!” He realizes that it is himself who is calling out to him from a TV. The man on TV says that he is “himself two minutes into the future”.
Howling
Director
While sleeping in his room, a man hears someone shouting, “Hey, hey!” He realizes that it is himself who is calling out to him from a TV. The man on TV says that he is “himself two minutes into the future”.
We're a Bounty Hunter Team!
Scenario Writer
Fourth film from "Toei Hero Next" series featuring actors playing heroes of Toei tokusatsu series. This time, six cast of super sentai series "Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger" star in a comedy film, "Oretachi Shokin Kasegi Dan." Directed by Koichi Sakamoto ("Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger").
Go Find a Psychic!
Writer
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
Summer Time Machine Blues
Screenplay
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn't changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
Summer Time Machine Blues
Theatre Play
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn't changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
A Little Fugue of Love
Writer
Having just finished building a time machine, an inventor tries to show it off to impress his childhood friend.
A Little Fugue of Love
Director
Having just finished building a time machine, an inventor tries to show it off to impress his childhood friend.
Time Machine
Writer
An inventor demonstrates the fun - and perils - of his new time-travelling device.
Time Machine
Director
An inventor demonstrates the fun - and perils - of his new time-travelling device.