Directing
Sumiko Haneda
Born January 3, 1926 Dalian, Liaoning province, China
Biography
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.
Directed Films
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And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
2012·Documentary
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Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2011·Documentary
6.7
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2009·Documentary
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All's Well That Ends Well
2007·Documentary
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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2006·Documentary
10.0
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004·Documentary
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Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2002·Documentary
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Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1996·Documentary
8.0
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1992·Documentary
10.0
Getting Old without Anxiety
1990·Documentary
10.0
How to Care for the Senile
1986·Documentary
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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1985·Documentary
7.0
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1982·Documentary
7.2
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977·Documentary
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971·Documentary
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The Cabbage Butterfly
1968·Documentary
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Beauty of the Ancients
1958·Documentary
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School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1957·Documentary
