Sumiko Haneda
Born: 1926-01-03 in Dalian, Liaoning province, China
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2012
- And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer ... (Director)
2011
- Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian ... (Director)
2009
2007
- All's Well That Ends Well ... (Director)
2006
- The Takanosu-machi Thereafter ... (Director)
2004
- Women Make Films as Self
- Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa ... (Writer)
2002
- Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho ... (Director)
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions as Self
1997
- Community Welfare that Residents Choose ... (Director)
1996
- Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement ... (Director)
1992
- Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon ... (Director)
1990
- Getting Old without Anxiety ... (Director)
1986
- How to Care for the Senile ... (Director)
1985
- Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer ... (Director)
1982
- Island of Loves ... (Dialogue)
- The Poem of Hayachine Valley ... (Screenplay)
1981
- Hayachine Kagura no Sato ... (Director)
1977
- The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms ... (Writer)
1976
- Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa ... (Director)
1971
- Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple ... (Director)
1968
- The Cabbage Butterfly ... (Writer)
1961
- The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love ... (Writer)
1958
- Beauty of the Ancients ... (Director)
1957
- School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village ... (Director)
1954
- Children in the Classroom ... (Assistant Director)