Career
He is one of the pink film directors known collectively as the "Seven Lucky Gods of Pink" (ピンク七福神, pinku shichifukujin), a group which comprises Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Yūji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto. Ueno began his film career as an assistant director on "pinku shitenno" (ピンク四天王) director Toshiki Satō"s debut film Beast (獣 けだもの, Kedamono) aka Dream Woman (1989). Ueno"s directing debut came the following year with Latest Soap Technique (最新ソープテクニック, Saishin soopu tekunikku) (1990).
Ueno was given a six-film career retrospective at Tokyo"s Athénée Francais in September 2004.