Screenplay: Sumiko Haneda

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Plot The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot In memory of Etsuko Takano, who used to be a best friend of Sumiko Haneda. The filmmaker kept filming one demented elderly in a nursing home for two years. It...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Direction Sumiko Haneda · Tokue Sato

Plot Haneda revisits Dalian and Lushun, places when she spent her formaative years.

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the tragic theme of the film is the destruction of millions of lives in the 13 years before Manchukuo collapsed with Japan’s...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Nearing 80 and well into her sixth decade as a professional filmmaker, Haneda embarked on one of her most acclaimed film projects, a cinematic rendition of a tale told through...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto). The film depicts the traditional...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Iwate Prefecture, Ohasamacho. In the foothills of Mt. Hayachine, the kagura (devotional dance) offered to the mountain goddess by the mountain priests is still performed today nearly unchanged from mediaeval...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of several in which she documented Japan’s ancient and...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976. Born 1926 in Dalian, China, Sumiko Haneda graduated from Jiyu Gakuen, and joined Iwanami Productions at...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Cast Akiko Kanda

Plot Haneda would return to film Kanda with And Then Akiko Is...: A Portrait of a Dancer, released in 2012, documenting the will to dance even when Kanda was battling with...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Kabuki-yakushya: Kataoka Nizaemon (Kataoka Nizaemon, Kabuki actor), by Sumiko Haneda, one of the most celebrated Japanese documentary directors, can be considered as an unprecedented feat in the history of Japanese...

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Plot Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of educational film.

Direction Sumiko Haneda

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

Direction Sumiko Haneda

Cast Akiko Kanda

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