Sumiko Haneda

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Sumiko Haneda

Directing 100 January 3, 1926

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…

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2012
  2. 2011
  3. 2009
  4. 2007
    All's Well That Ends Well

    Movie Director

  5. 2006
    The Takanosu-machi Thereafter

    Movie Director

  6. 2004
  7. 2004
    Women Make Films

    Movie Self

  8. 2002
  9. 2002
  10. 2000
  11. 1997
  12. 1996
  13. 1992
    Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon

    Movie Director

  14. 1990
    Getting Old without Anxiety

    Movie Director

  15. 1986
    How to Care for the Senile

    Movie Director

  16. 1985
    Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer

    Movie Director

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  1. 1982
    Island of Loves

    Movie Dialogue

  2. 1982
    The Poem of Hayachine Valley

    Movie Screenplay

  3. 1981
    Hayachine Kagura no Sato

    Movie Director

  4. 1977
  5. 1976
    Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa

    Movie Director

  6. 1971
  7. 1968
    The Cabbage Butterfly

    Movie Writer

  8. 1961
  9. 1958
    Beauty of the Ancients

    Movie Director

  10. 1957
  11. 1954
    Children in the Classroom

    Movie Assistant Director