Susumu Hani
Country: Japan
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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Tokyo 1958 (1958) - Short Film
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to bring a newsreel-style snapshot of Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and a half million people and was the largest city in the world... (imdb)
A man enters into an uncertain relationship with a nude model.
An improvisational shot in documentary style film depicting life in a boys' reform school and his lfe beforehand thta landed him there. (imdb & me)
When a young woman dies on vacation her friends reminisce about her life.
A woman resident becomes discontent with the empty life she and her husband are leading. They encounter a street beggar who lives in poverty with his dog and a blind orphan. The woman becomes fascinated by the beggar's world and pursues a friendship.
An old man (Jimmy Stewart) has settled in Kenya, in a remote cabin, with his adult granddaughter and several of her "animal friends". They live an idyllic life amongst the wildlife, unseen by all except a tribe of nomads, with whom they trade. But when a plane crashes in the nearby forest and its lone passenger is left an amnesiac, he stumbles into their lives and sets in motion a chain of unexpected events.
Children Who Draw (1956) - Short Film
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. (Harvard Film Archive)
Prophecy (1982) - Short Film
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. (letterboxd.com)
