Sumiko Haneda

DirectingBorn 1926-01-03 (100)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.

Sumiko Haneda

Known For

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

Women Make Films

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

Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

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