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

Resources:

• Haneda, Sumiko. Anshin-shite Oiro tame ni. Iwanami, 1992.
• Haneda, Sumiko. Eiga to Watashi. Shobunsha, 2002.
• wikipedia (JP)
• dgj profile (JP)
• MaGee, Chris. Review of Pictures into the Scroll. Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow, 11 July 2008.