
Sumiko Haneda
Directing
1926-01-03 · 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.
Filmography

And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer
2012 · Movie

Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
2011 · Movie

The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
2009 · Movie

All's Well That Ends Well
2007 · Movie

The Takanosu-machi Thereafter
2006 · Movie

Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
2004 · Movie

Women Make Films
2004 · Movie

Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho
2002 · Movie

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · Movie
問題はこれからです 続住民が選択した町の福祉
2000 · Movie
Community Welfare that Residents Choose
1997 · Movie

Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
1996 · Movie

Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
1992 · Movie

Getting Old without Anxiety
1990 · Movie

How to Care for the Senile
1986 · Movie

Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
1985 · Movie

Island of Loves
1982 · Movie

The Poem of Hayachine Valley
1982 · Movie
Hayachine Kagura no Sato
1981 · Movie

The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
1977 · Movie
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
1976 · Movie

Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971 · Movie

The Cabbage Butterfly
1968 · Movie
The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
1961 · Movie

Beauty of the Ancients
1958 · Movie

School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
1957 · Movie

Children in the Classroom
1954 · Movie