Sumiko Haneda
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (26)
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
Director (Directing)
2012
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
Director (Directing)
2011
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Director (Directing)
2009
All's Well That Ends Well
Director (Directing)
2007
The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
Director (Directing)
2006
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
Director (Directing)
2004
Women Make Films
as Self
2004
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
Director (Directing)
2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as Self
2002
Community Welfare that Residents Choose
Director (Directing)
1997
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
Director (Directing)
1996
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Director (Directing)
1992
Getting Old without Anxiety
Director (Directing)
1990
How to Care for the Senile
Director (Directing)
1986
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
Director (Directing)
1985
Island of Loves
Dialogue (Writing)
1982
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
Screenplay (Writing)
1982
Hayachine Kagura no Sato
Director (Directing)
1981
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
Writer (Writing)
1977
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
Director (Directing)
1976
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
Director (Directing)
1971
The Cabbage Butterfly
Writer (Writing)
1968
The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
Writer (Writing)
1961
Beauty of the Ancients
Director (Directing)
1958
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Director (Directing)
1957
Children in the Classroom
Assistant Director (Directing)
1954