Tanaka Sumie

Name: Tanaka Sumie
Native name: 田中澄江
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Female
Born: April 11, 1908
Died: March 1, 2000

Tanaka Sumie was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Tokyo. She was most well-known for her long collaboration with film director Naruse Mikio and for writing screenplays for Japan's first major female director Tanaka Kinuyo. Member of the Bungakuza theatre company, she was married to playwright and dramatist Tanaka Chikao. The screenplays she wrote for Repast (Meshi; 1951), Home Sweet Home (Wa ga ya wa tanoshi; 1951), and Boyhood (Shonenki; 1951) won her the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay in 1951. (Source: Wikipedia) Edit Biography

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1970	Niji	Drama	4.0
1967	The Izu Dancer	Movie	7.8
1966	Kaze no Aru Machi	Drama	0.0
1966	Anata Jiken Yo!	Drama	0.0
1964	Uzushio	Drama	8.0
1962	A Wanderer's Notebook	Movie	7.3
1961	Girl of Dark	Movie	7.5
1961	Onna no Hashi	Movie	8.0
1961	Horokisho	Special	0.0
1960	Namiki	Special	0.0
1959	Beauty the Enemy	Movie	4.0
1959	Ai no Tepurekoda	Special	0.0
1958	Anzukko	Movie	6.8
1958	Onna de aru Koto	Movie	6.0
1957	Yoru no Cho	Movie	6.0
1957	Koko ni Hito Ari	Drama	0.0
1957	Dancing Girl	Movie	6.0
1956	Flowing	Movie	6.9
1956	River of the Night	Movie	6.7
1956	New Family Album	Drama	0.0
1955	The Eternal Breasts	Movie	7.7
1954	Late Chrysanthemums	Movie	6.5
1952	Lightning	Movie	7.6
1951	Dispersed Clouds	Movie	6.0
1951	Repast	Movie	7.3
1951	Boyhood	Movie	6.0
1951	Home Sweet Home	Movie	1.0