HANEDA, Sumiko

羽田澄子 (b. 1926, Dalian, Manchuria)

  • has made more than 90 documentaries in a variety of capacities from editor to director
  • graduated from secondary school (旅順高等女学校卒業, 1942)
  • gradutated from college (自由学園女子部高等科卒業, 1945)
  • joined Iwanami Film Works (岩波映画製作所入社) in 1950 as an editor
  • from 1953 she worked as an assistant director and wrote scripts for industrial films
  • directed her first film "Women's College in the Village" in 1957
  • retired from Iwanami in 1980 in order to become an independent filmmaker
  • she is known in particular for her work on the problems of the elderly in "How to Care for the Senile" (1986) and the 6-part biographical series about the final years of the Kabuki actor Nizaemon
  • has won numerous awards including the Education Minister's Award for "Ode to Mt. Hayachine" - she was the first female director to win this award

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