Sumiko Haneda
Directing
Born January 3, 1926 in 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.
Filmography
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
Women Make Films
Self
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Self
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
Island of Loves
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
Children in the Classroom