About Toshiya Ueno
Lived 1963 – 2013 (aged 49). Toshiya Ueno was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor.
(2 October 1963 – 15 April 2013) was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the pink film directors known collectively as the , a group which comprises Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Yūji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto. Ueno acted as an "advance guard" for the pinku shichifukujin group of directors when his Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure became the first film to win the "Best Film" award at the Pink Grand Prix.
Ueno's 2003 film Ambiguous also won the Best Film prize at the Pink Grand Prix. Ueno was given a six-film career retrospective at Tokyo's Athénée Francais in September 2004.
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Who was Toshiya Ueno?
Japanese film director (1963-2013)
When was Toshiya Ueno born?
Toshiya Ueno was born on 2 October 1963 in Nagano Prefecture.
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Toshiya Ueno died on 15 April 2013.
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Toshiya Ueno was a film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor.
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Toshiya Ueno was Japanese.
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