Sumiko Haneda Movies

  • 2011
    Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian

    Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian

    Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian

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    Haneda Sumiko, documentary filmmaker who was born in Dalian, Manchuria in 1926 and was there to experience the conclusion of the Pacific War....

    Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian
  • 1986
    How to Care for the Senile

    How to Care for the Senile

    How to Care for the Senile

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    Shot in a retirement home over a period of two years, this film raises the question of "how to take care". The director films with great tenderness,...

    How to Care for the Senile
  • 1996
    Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

    Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

    Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement

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    In 1982, the socialist researcher Ishidō Kiyotomo organized a round table with women activists who had participated in the rise of the labor...

    Women’s Testimonies - Pioneering Women in the Labor Movement
  • 1958
    Beauty of the Ancients

    Beauty of the Ancients

    Beauty of the Ancients

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    Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...

    Beauty of the Ancients
  • 2012
    And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

    And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

    And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer

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    Sumiko Haneda returns to film what will be the final bits of Akiko Kanda's life, documenting Kanda's will to dance as she struggles with terminal...

    And Then Akiko Is... A Portrait of a Dancer