
Sumiko Haneda
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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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Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa (2004)
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Getting Old without Anxiety (1990)
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Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon (1992)
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The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (1977)
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple (1971)
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And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer (2012)
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Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian (2011)
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Community Welfare that Residents Choose (1997)
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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter (2006)
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The Cabbage Butterfly (1968)
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Woman Was the Sun—The Life of Hiratsuka Raicho (2002)
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How to Care for the Senile (1986)
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All's Well That Ends Well (2007)
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Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement (1996)
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The Poem of Hayachine Valley (1982)
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Beauty of the Ancients (1958)
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The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China (2009)
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Hayachine Kagura no Sato (1981)
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School for Village Women, Women’s College in the Village (1957)
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Akiko: Portrait of a Dancer (1985)
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Ima genshiryoku hatsuden wa (1976)
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問題はこれからです 続住民が選択した町の福祉 (2000)
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