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Sumiko Haneda (b. 1926)

Birthplace:
Dalian, Liaoning province, China

Born:
January 3, 1926

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Dialogue:
1982  Island of Loves

Director:
1957  School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1958  Beauty of the Ancients
1968  The Cabbage Butterfly
1971  Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1976  Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
1977  The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1981  Hayachine Kagura no Sato
1982  Island of Loves
1982  The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1985  Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1986  How to Care for the Senile
1990  Getting Old without Anxiety
1992  Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1996  Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1997  Community Welfare that Residents Choose
2002  Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2004  Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2006  The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2007  All's Well That Ends Well
2009  The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2011  Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2012  And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

Editor:
1957  School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1958  Beauty of the Ancients
1968  The Cabbage Butterfly
1971  Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1976  Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
1977  The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1981  Hayachine Kagura no Sato
1982  Island of Loves
1982  The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1985  Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1986  How to Care for the Senile
1990  Getting Old without Anxiety
1992  Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1996  Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1997  Community Welfare that Residents Choose
2002  Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2004  Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2006  The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2007  All's Well That Ends Well
2009  The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2011  Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2012  And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

Screenplay:
1957  School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1958  Beauty of the Ancients
1968  The Cabbage Butterfly
1971  Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1976  Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
1977  The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1981  Hayachine Kagura no Sato
1982  Island of Loves
1982  The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1985  Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1986  How to Care for the Senile
1990  Getting Old without Anxiety
1992  Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1996  Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1997  Community Welfare that Residents Choose
2002  Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2004  Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2006  The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2007  All's Well That Ends Well
2009  The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2011  Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2012  And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

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

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