Makoto Ueda

略歴

Makoto Ueda is a Japanese senior film producer for NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

参加作品

とかげ
Production Supervisor
Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto.
Sweet Mud
Executive Producer
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Don't Look Back
Producer
Jung-Hee (Kim Hye-Na) is a 21-year-old dancer who struggles with insecurities and other problems after her father abandoned her family 15 years ago. One day, Jung-Hee's brings back their father. Keun-Woo (Lee Sang-Woo) is a 25-year-old low level telephone technician. One day, his friend shows him a picture of a woman he is trying to extort money from. The woman is having an affair with a married man. Keun-Woo taps into the woman's telephone line and begins to eavesdrop on her conversations. After a few evenings, Keun-Woo falls in love with the woman, but the woman doesn't even know he exits. In-Ho (Kim Tae-Woo) is a 30-year-old soldier. He is about to be discharged from the military after serving for 2 years. In-Ho then gets his last leave of absence and decides to give his wife a surprise visit. When he arrives his wife isn't home. When he does finally see her his wife has changed and seems distant.
Five Dedicated to Ozu
Producer
Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.
Tehran 7:00 a.m.
Executive Producer
24 hours in Tehran. A traffic cop is interested in an actress, two old sourpusses terrorise the drug control lab, not everything a taxi driver says is the truth and a building worker seems to be in love.
アフガン零年
Producer
タリバン政権下で生きる少女とその家族にスポットを当て、その恐怖と苦しみを描き、2003年カンヌ国際映画祭カメラドール特別賞を受賞した実力作。TV、映画、音楽が禁止されていたタリバン政権崩壊後初めてアフガン人の監督による、アフガンの映画が誕生したことの意味は重要だ。この作品で迫真の演技を見せた、マリナ・ゴルバハーリら次世代の才能を発掘した成果も大きい。アフガンの人々の日常生活に迫る記念すべき作品。
Willow and Wind
Producer
A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.
Whispering Sands
Producer
Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.
City Loop
Executive Producer
City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go
ペパーミント・キャンディー
Co-Executive Producer
1999年春。鉄道の高架下で男ヨンホは全てを失ったいま、過去を振り返っていた。3日前、ヨンホは危篤状態にある初恋の相手、スニムを見舞う。数年前には行きずりのバーのホステスにスニムの面影を見る。さらに3年前、新米刑事のヨンホのもとにスニムがやって来るが、彼はそっけなく追い返してしまう。その4年前には兵役についたヨンホを訪ねたスニムだが面会許可がおりなかった。そしてその1年前、青年ヨンホはスニムとこの高架下で互いの将来を語り合っていた。
Pura Handa Kaluwara
Producer
Drama about a father who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.