The Documentary Cinema of Haneda Sumiko Japan in Transition through Gender, Arts, Nature and Society

Haneda Sumiko’s Oeuvre. An Introduction.

Marcos Centeno-Martin, Irene González-López and Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández

GENDER DYNAMICS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN

1.     Adding a Gender Perspective to Iwanami Documentaries: Women’s College in the Village (1957).

Marcos Centeno-Martin and Ayako Saito

2.     Akiko (1985): Portrait of an Indomitable Force.

Irene González-López

CULTURAL HERITAGE

3.     Resurrecting Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple (1971): a Cinematic Poem on Absence, Melancholy, and the Passage of Time.

Marcos Centeno-Martin and Raúl Fortes-Guerrero

4.     A Gaze at the Ordinary People in Genre Paintings in the Late 16th Century (1967).

Makiko Kamiya

5.     The Art/s and The Artist/s: Japanese Scroll Painting, Art Documentaries and Haneda Sumiko’s Journey into a Picture Scroll.

Adam Bingham

TRADITIONAL THEATRE ARTS

6.     Kyōgen (1969), the Mirror of Tradition. In Search of Identity through Performing Arts. Raúl Fortes-Guerrero

7.     The Ontology of an Actor’s Body: Documenting the Last Years of Kataoka Nizaemon’s Life.

Ayumi Fujioka

NATURAL SCIENCES AND ECO-CINEMA

8.     Haneda Sumiko Runs through a Cabbage Field: The Challenge of The Cabbage Butterfly (1968).

Hidenori Okada

9.     Visualizing Invisible Contamination: Haneda Sumiko’s TV Programs on Environmental Pollution.

Koji Toba

10.  The Cherry Tree with Grey Blossoms (1977): An Ecology of the Everyday.

Anne McKnight

HISTORY AND MEMORY OF ‘VANISHING’ JAPAN

11.  Haneda’s Beauty of the Ancients (1958) and Traumascapes: Re-membering Japanese Culture through Documentary Film.

Dolores P. Martinez

12.  Ode to Mt. Hayachine (1982). Between an End of an Era, and the Dawn of a New One: Capturing the Flow of History.

Matteo Boscarol

13.  Haneda’s Transnational Cinema: From Diasporic Cinema to Mnemonic Journey Films. The case of The Japanese Settlers… (2008).

Marcos Centeno-Martin

AGING

14.  Confronting the Forgotten: Unveiling the World of the Elderly with Dementia through The World of Dementia (1986).

Lu Siyu

15.  Gendered Citizenship, Democracy, and Welfare Reform in Getting Old without Anxiety (1990) and the Takanosu trilogy (1997-2006).

Diane Wei Lewis

16.  Critiquing Ideal Aging: Food, Care, and Detachment in Haneda Sumiko’s All’s Well that Ends Well (2006) and Other Documentaries.

Yutaka Kubo

ANNEXES

17.  Interview with Satō Tokue, Filmmaker, Haneda Sumiko’s Personal Assistant and Manager of Kanatasha, Inc.

Irene González-López

18.  The Eye of the Documentarist. Interview with Director Haneda Sumiko.

Kaneko Yū (Translated by Maria Roemer)

19.  Haneda Sumiko’s Filmography.

Biography

Marcos Centeno-Martin is Associate Professor in Film and Media and Japanese Studies at the University of Valencia, Spain, and Research Associate for the Japan Research Centre at SOAS, UK.

Irene González-López is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández currently works at The Japan Society in London and holds a PhD from University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain.