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Sumie Tanaka

1908 - 2000 (age 91) • Writing

Sumie Tanaka (田中澄江, Tanaka Sumie, 11 April 1908 — 1 March 2000) was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright. An outspoken feminist, her stories often focused on women struggling with familial and societal expectations. She was a long-time collaborator of film director Mikio Naruse and wrote screenplays for Japan's first major female director Kinuyo Tanaka.

Known For

Repast

76%

Screenplay

1951

Late Chrysanthemums

72%

Adaptation

1954

Forever a Woman

76%

Screenplay

1955

Flowing

72%

Screenplay

1956

Lightning

73%

Screenplay

1952

Girls of the Night

65%

Screenplay

1961

Little Peach

61%

Screenplay

1958

Undercurrent

62%

Screenplay

1956

Twenty-Four Eyes

Screenplay

1980

Niji

Writer

1970

The Journey

70%

Screenplay

1967

Eddy Currents of Life

Screenplay

1964

Uzushio

Screenplay

1964

A Wanderer's Notebook

72%

Screenplay

1962

Girls of the Night

65%

Screenplay

1961

The Orphan Brother

63%

Writer

1961

The Izu Dancer

Screenplay

1960

Beauty the Enemy

75%

Screenplay

1959

Little Peach

61%

Screenplay

1958

Woman Unveiled

80%

Screenplay

1958

Night Butterflies

65%

Screenplay

1957

Dancing Girl

80%

Screenplay

1957

Flowing

72%

Screenplay

1956

Undercurrent

62%

Screenplay

1956

Women in Prison

40%

Writer

1956

Forever a Woman

76%

Screenplay

1955

Late Chrysanthemums

72%

Adaptation

1954

An Heir's Place

100%

Writer

1953

Aiyoku no sabaki

Screenplay

1953

Lightning

73%

Screenplay

1952

Dispersed Clouds

70%

Screenplay

1951

Repast

76%

Screenplay

1951

Boyhood

69%

Screenplay

1951

Home Sweet Home

68%

Original Story

1951

Home Sweet Home

68%

Screenplay

1951

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