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Sumiko Haneda profile
Actor

Sumiko Haneda

Directing

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Movies: 22Series: 0Crew credits: 20

TMDB ID: 1511844

IMDb ID: nm0359724

Known for: Directing

Born: January 3, 1926

Age: 100

Place of birth: Dalian, Liaoning province, China

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 2012

Years active: 59

Wikidata: Q11610317

Other jobs

Director (14)Writer (3)Assistant Director (1)Dialogue (1)Screenplay (1)

Biography

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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