Sumiko Haneda
Director · Actor · WriterBorn 1926 in Dalian, China, Sumiko Haneda graduated from Jiyu Gakuen, and joined Iwanami Productions at its founding. She has been involved in over eighty documentaries, starting with Women’s College in the Village (1957). After The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (1977) she took to independent filmmaking, and has made over ten films including Ode to Mt. Hayachine (1982), How to Care for the Senile (1986), Getting Old without Anxiety (1990) and Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho (2001). She participated as a juror in the International Competition in YIDFF ’99.
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FILMOGRAPHY
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And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
2012
Director
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2011
Director
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2009
Director
All's Well That Ends Well
2007
Director
The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2006
Director
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004
Director
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2002
Director
- 問題はこれからです 続住民が選択した町の福祉
問題はこれからです 続住民が選択した町の福祉
2000
Director
- Community Welfare that Residents Choose
Community Welfare that Residents Choose
1997
Director
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1996
Director
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1992
Director
Getting Old without Anxiety
1990
Director
How to Care for the Senile
1986
Director
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1985
Director
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1982
Director
- Hayachine Kagura no Sato
Hayachine Kagura no Sato
1981
Director
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977
Director
- Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
1976
Director
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971
Director
The Cabbage Butterfly
1968
Director
Beauty of the Ancients
1958
Director
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1957
Director
Children in the Classroom
1954
Assistant Director
WRITER7
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004
Writer
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1982
Screenplay
Island of Loves
1982
Dialogue
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977
Writer
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971
Screenplay
The Cabbage Butterfly
1968
Writer
- The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
1961
Writer
