Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Production in 2000


WHO's WHO in Asia
Restoring Our Deprived Homeland
-Primorskij Kraj, Far-eastern Russia-

 
Broadcast:28 February, 2000
by NHK BS1
20 min.
Project initiated, produced, directed and edited by Hiroshi MASUDA

Overcoming sixty years of forced exile six thousand kilometers away, Soviet Koreans are coming back to their homeland in Russian far east. Program portrays their agony and hope, focusing on the struggle of Mr. Kim Telmir, who is the son of prosecuted revolutionary hero in the region, to help his fellow people as the leader of those Koreans.






ETV2000 Secrets of Original Inventions
Part 1 Shuji NAKAMURA
Part 2 Toshitada DOI
 
Broadcast:29 May, 2000
by NHK Educational TV
44 min. each
Project initiated, directed and produced by Hiroshi MASUDA

Series of interviews to the inventors who achieved unique and original invention. First part is the story of how Mr. Nakamura, who then was a young engineer at a small chemical company in a remote countryside of Japan, won all by himself in the cut throat race to invent blue LED, far leading big enterprises and universities.
Second part is the story of Mr. Doi, who is now known as the creator of the Robot Dog by SONY, but have also accomplished many epoch-making invention, such as compact disks. He tells how he developed and realized his original idea, forming and leading right task force, amongst the bureaucratism and physics of organization which always work against unique and original ideas.