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Sumiko Haneda

Sumiko Haneda

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.

On screen

  • Women Make Films
  • Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

Behind the camera

  • And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
  • Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
  • The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
  • Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
  • Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
  • Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
  • Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
  • Getting Old without Anxiety
  • How to Care for the Senile
  • Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
  • The Poem of Hayachine Valley
  • The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
  • Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
  • The Cabbage Butterfly
  • Beauty of the Ancients
  • School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village

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