Sumiko Haneda Movies

This extraordinary film presents Japanese classical scroll painting as never before. The Yamanaka Tokiwa comprises twelve scrolls painted by Matabei...

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

Toru Iwakawa is elected mayor of Takanosu on the platform of improving welfare. With the support of a group formed by residents, he aims to develop a...

Documentary on end-of-life care in Japan

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

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

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...

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...

Mayor Iwakawa was voted into office in 1991, promising better welfare for senior citizens. As a result of his efforts to create a town with resident...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

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

Iwate Prefecture, Ohasamacho. In the foothills of Mt. Hayachine, the kagura (devotional dance) offered to the mountain goddess by the mountain...

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,...

Documentary on pioneer Japanese feminist Hiratsuka Raicho

Short documentary made for the communities at the foot of Mount Hayachine. Not satisfied with it, Haneda expanded it into what eventually became Ode...

TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976.

Documentary film from Japan.

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)....