Susumu Hani

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Susumu Hani ( Japanese 羽 仁 進 , Hani Susumu ; born October 10, 1928 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter .

The director was born in 1928 to the leftist historian Gorō Hani and his wife. After graduating from school in 1947, he began working as a journalist for the Kyodo News agency. Hani's early career began with documentaries, including Kyōshitsu no kodomotachi (1954) and Te o kaku kodomotachi (1956). These made the cinéma vérité documentary style known in Japan and were therefore in the interest of other Japanese filmmakers.

In the 1960s he developed into one of the most important representatives of the so-called "Japanese Nouvelle Vague ". He mostly used amateur actors and mixed stylistic devices from documentaries and feature films. In his first feature film The Probation from 1961, he showed dissatisfied young people in a youth prison. Hani used actual juvenile offenders as actors to make the film look more authentic. For this film, the director received the Kinema Jumpō Prize for “best director” as well as for “best film”.

This was followed by other feature films such as A Meaningful Life (1962) and You and He (1963), which were shown in the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and thus also earned the director recognition in Europe. One of Hani's best-known films is The Girl Nanami from 1968. In this drama, whose script was written by Hani together with Shūji Terayama , the title character is a young person working in the red light district who falls in love with the young Shun who meets her for the first time processed traumatic childhood experiences.

After his film The Stranger in the Rainforest , Hani withdrew from the feature film in the early 1980s. He has since made animal documentaries in Africa for television.

From 1959 until the divorce in 1977, Hani was married to actress Sachiko Hidari , whom he entrusted the lead role in She and He in 1963 . The relationship resulted in their daughter Mio Hani , born in 1964 , who was to make a name for herself as an essayist and director.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1954: Kyōshitsu no kodomo-tachi ( 教室 の 子 供 た ち )
  • 1956: E o kaku kodomo-tachi ( 絵 を 描 く 子 供 た ち )
  • 1961: Probation ( 不良少年 , Furyō shōnen )
  • 1962: Paradise for men ( Il paradiso dell'uomo )
  • 1962: A Meaningful Life ( 充 た さ れ た 生活 , Mitasareta seikatsu )
  • 1963: Children, hand in hand ( 手 を つ な ぐ 子 ら , Te o tsunagu kora )
  • 1963: She and He ( 彼女 と 彼 , Kanojo to kare )
  • 1968: The girl Nanami ( 初恋 ・ 地獄 篇 , Hatsukoi: Jigokätze )
  • 1972: Mio ( 妖精 の 詩 , Yōsei no uta )
  • 1980: The stranger in the rainforest ( ア フ リ カ 物語 , Afurika monogatari )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Donald Richie : A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos , p. 249.
  2. ↑ Richie, pp. 192-193
  3. ↑ cf. Japanese actress Hidari dead . Agence France-Presse , November 10, 2001, International News, Tokyo
  4. ↑ cf. Veteran actress Hidari dies at 71 . Japan Economic Newswire, Nov. 10, 2001, International News
personal data
SURNAME Hani, Susumu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 羽 仁 進 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan