Susumu Hani

Susumu Hani

Nacimiento : 1928-10-10, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Historia

“I am interested only in the inside of people.” Susumu Hani is a Japanese film director, and one of the most prominent representatives of the 1960s Japanese New Wave. Born in Tokyo, he has directed both documentaries and feature films. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first fiction film, Bad Boys, in 1961.

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Susumu Hani

Películas

History: The Age of the Nuclear Chaos
Writer
10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film
History: The Age of the Nuclear Chaos
Director
10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film
Prophecy
Director
This rare documentary is one of the very last efforts from preeminent documentarist/activist Susumu Hani best known for his feature films. This one is a short documentary about the 1945 atomic bombing and its devastating consequences. The film came out of the "10 Foot Movement". A movement organized by the Japan Peace Museum, which mobilized Japanese citizen activists to buy back small segments of film footage of the effects of the atomic bomb from the U.S. National Archives. The film combines recent footage of survivors of the atomic bomb with American archival footage, portraying the sorrow of atomic bomb survivors in the cold war period.
Green Horizons
Director
A pilot crash-lands in the African wilds, and loses his memory. He finds an old man living in the jungle with his grand-daughter. He falls in love with the young girl and settles down happily with them; their idyllic life broken only by a visit from his long forgotten fiancee.
The Morning Schedule
Screenplay
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
The Morning Schedule
Editor
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
The Morning Schedule
Director
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
Mio
Director
A little Japanese girl of six is transferred to a school in Sardinia where she slowly finds friends and a place before going off again.
Love Fantasia
Screenplay
A musical comedy.
Love Fantasia
Director
A musical comedy.
Aido: Slave of Love
Editor
Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
Aido: Slave of Love
Screenplay
Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
Aido: Slave of Love
Director
Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
Nanami. El infierno del primer amor
Editor
Una joven pareja se cita en una habitación de hotel para hacer el amor por primera vez. El chico, Shun, tímido y torpe, oculta su cara y se marcha al baño a por un vaso de agua mientras la chica, Nanami, le espera desnuda. Ella se gana la vida como modelo nudista. Avergonzado por su torpeza en los juegos preeliminares, Shun y Nanami deciden conocer al otro antes de acometer el acto amoroso. Tras acordar encontrarse en una fecha posterior, ambos deciden empezar a hacer frente a su pasado.
Nanami. El infierno del primer amor
Writer
Una joven pareja se cita en una habitación de hotel para hacer el amor por primera vez. El chico, Shun, tímido y torpe, oculta su cara y se marcha al baño a por un vaso de agua mientras la chica, Nanami, le espera desnuda. Ella se gana la vida como modelo nudista. Avergonzado por su torpeza en los juegos preeliminares, Shun y Nanami deciden conocer al otro antes de acometer el acto amoroso. Tras acordar encontrarse en una fecha posterior, ambos deciden empezar a hacer frente a su pasado.
Nanami. El infierno del primer amor
Director
Una joven pareja se cita en una habitación de hotel para hacer el amor por primera vez. El chico, Shun, tímido y torpe, oculta su cara y se marcha al baño a por un vaso de agua mientras la chica, Nanami, le espera desnuda. Ella se gana la vida como modelo nudista. Avergonzado por su torpeza en los juegos preeliminares, Shun y Nanami deciden conocer al otro antes de acometer el acto amoroso. Tras acordar encontrarse en una fecha posterior, ambos deciden empezar a hacer frente a su pasado.
Bride of the Andes
Screenplay
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds her new husband living with Andes Mountain Indians and working for an archaeological expedition. The man and her boy take to each other, and the woman begins to study and understand the lives of the Indians. When her husband is killed mining for Incan treasure, she uses the money sent by the state to stay and help the villagers whom she has come to love.
Bride of the Andes
Director
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds her new husband living with Andes Mountain Indians and working for an archaeological expedition. The man and her boy take to each other, and the woman begins to study and understand the lives of the Indians. When her husband is killed mining for Incan treasure, she uses the money sent by the state to stay and help the villagers whom she has come to love.
Bwana Toshi
Writer
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thought he was.
Bwana Toshi
Director
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thought he was.
Children Hand in Hand
Editor
Children Hand in Hand
Writer
Children Hand in Hand
Director
Ella y él
Writer
Una mujer se encuentra insatisfecha de la vida que llevan ella y su marido. Un día se encuentran con un mendigo que vive en la miseria con su perro y un huérfano ciego. La mujer queda fascinada por el mundo del mendigo y persigue una amistad con consecuencias trágicas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ella y él
Director
Una mujer se encuentra insatisfecha de la vida que llevan ella y su marido. Un día se encuentran con un mendigo que vive en la miseria con su perro y un huérfano ciego. La mujer queda fascinada por el mundo del mendigo y persigue una amistad con consecuencias trágicas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Il paradiso dell'uomo
Director
The story of the Japanese woman who with a sense of pagan fatalism has been able to sacrifice herself to mechanize her spirit in a sort of absurd voluntary human planning: of the woman who knows how to pose the folds of her kimono in the precious depictions of traditional dances and who knows turn on the eyes of the spectators with morbid attention in the studied movements of a strip-tease: of the woman who burns all her perceptive powers in the factories of the microscopic transistors in two years, of the "loves" who, with a centuries-old technique, dive for fishing corals and pearls; of the Japanese woman, essential actress of a drama of transformation taking place in a country of very ancient civilization that only for a century has opened the doors of her fantastic world in the eyes of the foreigner.
A Full Life
Screenplay
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
A Full Life
Director
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
Bad Boys
Director
A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his life experiences.
Bad Boys
Screenplay
A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his life experiences.
The Living Sea
Writer
Marine biological documentary
The Living Sea
Director
Marine biological documentary
Tokyo 1958
Editor
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Producer
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Screenplay
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Director
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Hōryū-ji
Director
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside Japan’s ancient capital of Nara, was one of the first Buddhist places of worship established in Japan, and contains the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world, dating from the seventh century.
Diary of the Zoological Garden
Writer
The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.
Diary of the Zoological Garden
Director
The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.
Twin Class
Writer
An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development
Twin Class
Director
An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development
Children Who Draw
Writer
Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational black-and-white portraits of the young children with lyrical passages shot in vivid color exploring their imaginative and expressive paintings. Experimenting with color as an intimate expression of the children’s inner worlds, a tool for deeper psychological investigation, Hani allows his camera to roam freely across the drawings, “de-framing’” and enagaging the artwork in a manner reminiscent of Alain Resnais.
Children Who Draw
Director
Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational black-and-white portraits of the young children with lyrical passages shot in vivid color exploring their imaginative and expressive paintings. Experimenting with color as an intimate expression of the children’s inner worlds, a tool for deeper psychological investigation, Hani allows his camera to roam freely across the drawings, “de-framing’” and enagaging the artwork in a manner reminiscent of Alain Resnais.
Children in the Classroom
Director
A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.