Sumiko Haneda Movies

Documentary film from Japan.

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,...

The care facilities for the elderly in a small town in Gifu prefecture, and the comparison with the welfare in Denmark, Sweden and Australia.

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

“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in...