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Beauty of the Ancients

195822mMovieDocumentary

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of several in which she documented Japan’s ancient and classical artistic treasures. Here she focuses on…

DirectorSumiko Haneda

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