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.
The Poem of Hayachine Valley
Island of Loves
The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms
Children in the Classroom
How to Care for the Senile
Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa
The Cabbage Butterfly
Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer
Getting Old without Anxiety
School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village
Beauty of the Ancients
Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a DancerThe Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
All's Well That Ends Well
