Sumiko Haneda Movies

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

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

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,...