Sumiko Haneda

Directing·Jan 3, 1926·Dalian, Liaoning province, China

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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.

Film	Credit
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer2012 · Director	Director
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian2011 · Director	Director
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China2009 · Director	Director
All's Well That Ends Well2007 · Director	Director
The Takanosu-machi Thereafter2006 · Director	Director
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Women Make Films2004 · Self	Self
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho2002 · Director	Director
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions2002 · Self	Self
問問題はこれからです続住民が選択した町の福祉2000 · Director	Director
CCommunity Welfare that Residents Choose1997 · Director	Director
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement1996 · Director	Director
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon1992 · Director	Director
Getting Old without Anxiety1990 · Director	Director
How to Care for the Senile1986 · Director	Director
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer1985 · Director	Director
The Poem of Hayachine Valley1982 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
HHayachine Kagura no Sato1981 · Director	Director
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms1977 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
IIma genshiryoku hatsuden wa1976 · Director	Director
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple1971 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Cabbage Butterfly1968 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
TThe Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love1961 · Writer	Writer
Beauty of the Ancients1958 · Director	Director
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village1957 · Director	Director