Sumie Tanaka

Sumie Tanaka (田中澄江; April 11, 1908—March 1, 2000) was a Japanese screenwriter and playwriter. She is most well known for her long collaboration with film director Mikio Naruse and for writing screenplays for Japan's first major female director Kinuyo Tanaka. Member of the Bungakuza theatre company, she was married to playwright and dramatist Tanaka Chikao for who she wrote plays. The screenplays she wrote for Repast (めし, Meshi; 1951), Home Sweet Home (我が家は楽し , Wa ga ya wa tanoshi; 1951), and Record of Youth (少年期 , Shonenki; 1951) won her the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay in 1951.

Filmography

• A Record of Youth (1951)
• Home Sweet Home (1951)
• Dispersed Clouds (1951)
• Repast (1951)
• Lightning (1952)
• Aiyoku no Sabaki (1953)
• An Heir's Place (1953)
• Yousei wa Hana no Nioigasuru (1953)
• Miseraretaru Tamashii (1953)
• Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
• The Eternal Breasts (1955)
• Kokoro ni Hana no Saku Hi made (1955)
• River of the Night (1956)
• Onna no ashiato (1956)
• Zakkyo Kazoku (1956)
• Tokyo no Hito Zengohen (1956)
• Flowing (1956)
• Women in Prison (1956)
• Odoriko (1957)
• Evening Butterfly (1957)
• Night Seagull (1957)
• Onna de aru koto (1958)
• Little Peach (1958)
• Beauty is Guilty (1959)
• Onna gokoro (1959)
• Fubuki tomoni kaeru yuki nu (1959)
• 伊豆の踊子 (1960)
• Girls of the Night (1961)
• Onna no hashi (1961)
• The Littlest Warrior (1961)
• A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
• Uzushio (1964)
• Tabaji (1967)
• Betsuri (1984)