Susumu Hani
Susumu Hani, born October 10, 1928, in Tokyo, is a Japanese film director and a key figure in the 1960s Japanese New Wave. He has made both documentaries and feature films. In 1961 he won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first fiction film, Bad Boys. His 1962 film Mitasareta seikatsu was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1963 his documentary Children Hand in Hand was shown at the Moscow International Film Festival and earned a Special Diploma. One of his best-known films is Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968), which he co-wrote with Shūji Terayama. He was married to actress Sachiko Hidari from 1959 to 1977.
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