Director
Sumiko Haneda
100 years · Dalian, Liaoning province, China · 20 films
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 for
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2009 · Director
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977 · Writer, Director
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004 · Writer, Director
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · Self
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1992 · Director
Getting Old without Anxiety
1990 · Director
Filmography 20
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, Editor
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004 · Writer, Director
Women Make Films
2004 · Self
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2002 · Director
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · Self
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 · Screenplay, Director
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977 · Writer, Director
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971 · Director, Screenplay
The Cabbage Butterfly
1968 · Writer, Director
Beauty of the Ancients
1958 · Director
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1957 · Director