Sumiko Haneda

Known for: Directing
Born: January 3, 1926, Dalian, Liaoning province, China
Movies: 25

Born 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.

Best-Known Movies

6.7

The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China

2009

7.2

The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms

1977

10.0

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

2002

7.0

The Poem of Hayachine Valley

1982

10.0

Getting Old without Anxiety

1990

10.0

How to Care for the Senile

1986

8.0

Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon

1992

10.0

Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa

2004

Women Make Films

2004

School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village

1957

Filmography

2004	Women Make Films	Self
2002	Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2012	And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer	Director
2011	Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian	Director
2009	The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China	Director
2007	All's Well That Ends Well	Director
2006	The Takanosu-machi Thereafter	Director
2004	Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa	Director, Writer
2002	Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho	Director
2000	問題はこれからです続住民が選択した町の福祉	Director
1997	Community Welfare that Residents Choose	Director
1996	Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement	Director
1992	Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon	Director
1990	Getting Old without Anxiety	Director
1986	How to Care for the Senile	Director
1985	Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer	Director
1982	The Poem of Hayachine Valley	Screenplay, Director
1981	Hayachine Kagura no Sato	Director
1977	The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms	Writer, Director
1976	Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa	Director
1971	Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple	Director, Screenplay
1968	The Cabbage Butterfly	Writer, Director
1961	The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love	Writer
1958	Beauty of the Ancients	Director
1957	School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village	Director

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