# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sumie-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:48.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sumie-tanaka"
name: "Sumie Tanaka"
slug: "sumie-tanaka"
description: "Sumie Tanaka  was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright with a feminist agenda. She was a long-time collaborator of film director Mikio Naruse and wrote screenplays for Japan's first major female director Kinuyo Tanaka. A member of the Bungakuza theatre company, she was married to dramatist Chikao Tanaka. Awards she received for her work include the Blue Ribbon Award, the Ministry of Education Award for Arts and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature."
tagline: "Japanese screenwriter and playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sumie_tanaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-04-11"
deathDate: "2000-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             3.896103896103897
  historical:           7.22952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849068/"
    handle:    "nm0849068"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%BE%84%E6%B1%9F"
    title: "田中澄江"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "سومى تاناكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka_Sumie"
    title: "Tanaka Sumie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Tanaka"
    title: "Sumie Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Tanaka"
    title: "Sumie Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A6%D9%87_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "سومیئه تاناکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Tanaka"
    title: "Sumie Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11575719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136388"
    title: "Sumie Tanaka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump