Sumiko Haneda
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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Acting Credits
25
Crew Credits
Acting
Crew
Movie
Island of Loves
Dialogue
1982
Movie
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Director
2009
Movie
Children in the Classroom
Assistant Director
1954
Movie
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
Writer
1977
Movie
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
Screenplay
1982
Movie
Getting Old without Anxiety
Director
1990
Movie
How to Care for the Senile
Director
1986
Movie
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Director
1992
Movie
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
Director
2004
Movie
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Director
1957
Movie
Beauty of the Ancients
Director
1958
Movie
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
Director
1996