Person
Sumiko Haneda
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 3, 1926
- From
- Dalian, Liaoning province, China
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.
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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Women Make Films
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Beauty of the Ancients
Getting Old without Anxiety
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
How to Care for the Senile
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
The Cabbage Butterfly
All's Well That Ends Well
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian