“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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01 January 1958
This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples.
05 July 1965
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows.
01 January 1982
One of the most popular forms of entertainment in contemporary japan is the "manga". The work is usually translated as "comics" in English, but mangas are not limited to the publishing industry alone.
02 August 2025
Based on 50 years of footage shot in Africa, director Susumu Hani's latest work vividly shows the wisdom of the animals and the circle of life that they weave together.
24 April 1958
A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.
25 May 1968
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
19 July 1980
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.
31 March 1954
A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.
18 October 1963
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy.
01 January 1963
A documentary film produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Iwanami Shoten's founding. It depicts the history of Iwanami Shoten over a 50-year period from its founding in 1913 to 1963, using films, publications, photographs, etc.
18 March 1971
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.
03 April 1957
The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.
09 July 1983
10-Feet Movement anti-nuclear documentary film
01 October 1956
An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment ont
01 June 1950
A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have started a fly extermination campaign to improve school hygiene.
14 October 1972
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
22 May 1969
After wandering into a cemetery, a young man named Shusei is led by the mysterious Madame Enjoji to a secluded mansion.
29 March 1961
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.
03 July 1966
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences.
23 January 1963
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.
15 August 1982
This rare documentary is one of the very last efforts from preeminent documentarist/activist Susumu Hani best known for his feature films.
14 January 1962
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.
18 February 1956
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.
28 March 1964
The film centres around a group of schoolchildren navigating the complexities of friendship, trust, and honesty.
01 January 1959
Tokyo in the 1950s. A jazz-loving younger sister attends piano lessons, while her older brother is obsessed with drumming.
01 January 1952
An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient lifestyles without water supply through examples from various places, and shows how life can be brighter if a small but managed water supply is installed.
