Sumie Tanaka
Japanese screenwriter and playwright · Japan · On the map · Writers · Lived 1908 to 2000 · aged 91
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.
Sumie Tanaka is read about 27 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 30 June 2026
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Mikio Naruse Directed Repast, Lightning and Flowing
Kinuyo Tanaka Directed Forever a Woman and Girls of the Night
Sanezumi Fujimoto Produced Repast and Flowing
Kyōko Kagawa Also in Lightning and Women in Prison
Chieko Nakakita Also in Repast, Lightning and Flowing
Daisuke Katō Sumie wrote A Wanderer's Notebook and Anzukko
Fujiko Yamamoto Also in Undercurrent and Night Butterflies
Hideko Takamine Also in Home Sweet Home, Lightning and Flowing
Kōzaburō Yoshimura Directed Undercurrent and Night Butterflies
Chikage Awashima Also in Dancing Girl and Girls of the Night
Haruko Sugimura Also in Repast and Flowing
Isuzu Yamada Also in Home Sweet Home and Flowing
Sō Yamamura Also in Little Peach and The Orphan Brother
Keiju Kobayashi Also in Repast and Little Peach
Yōko Sugi Also in Repast and Forever a Woman
Keisuke Kinoshita Directed Boyhood (1951)
Mariko Okada Also in Flowing (1956)
Ken Uehara Also in Repast and Undercurrent
Noboru Nakamura Directed Home Sweet Home (1951)
Seiji Miyaguchi Sumie wrote Kokoro ni Hana no Saku Hi made (1955)
Chōko Iida Sumie wrote The Eternal Breasts (1955)
Yuzo Kawashima Directed Woman Unveiled (1958)
Noriko Sengoku Also in Women in Prison and Girls of the Night
Chieko Naniwa Also in Women in Prison and Girls of the Night
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Awards she received for her work include the Blue Ribbon Award, the Ministry of Education Award for Arts and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.
