Sumiko Haneda
Directing · Born Jan 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 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
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
2012
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2011
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
20096.7
All's Well That Ends Well
2007
The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2006
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
200410.0
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2002
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1996
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
19928.0
Getting Old without Anxiety
199010.0
How to Care for the Senile
198610.0
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1985
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
19827.0
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
19777.2
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971
The Cabbage Butterfly
1968
Beauty of the Ancients
1958
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1957
