Sumiko Haneda
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 3, 1926 (age 100)
- Birthplace
- Dalian, Liaoning province, China
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.
Known For
Island of Loves
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Children in the Classroom
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
Getting Old without Anxiety
How to Care for the Senile
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
Women Make Films
Beauty of the Ancients
Filmography
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
Movie · Director
Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
Movie · Director
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Movie · Director
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie · Director
The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
Movie · Director
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
Movie · Director
Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
Movie · Director
問題はこれからです 続住民が選択した町の福祉
Movie · Director
Community Welfare that Residents Choose
Movie · Director
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
Movie · Director
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Movie · Director
Getting Old without Anxiety
Movie · Director
How to Care for the Senile
Movie · Director
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
Movie · Director
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
Movie · Director
Hayachine Kagura no Sato
Movie · Director
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
Movie · Director
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
Movie · Director
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
Movie · Director
The Cabbage Butterfly
Movie · Director
Beauty of the Ancients
Movie · Director
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Movie · Director
Children in the Classroom
Movie · Assistant Director