Poster of Beauty of the Ancients

Beauty of the Ancients

Plot: 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 the Tokyo National Museum’s collection of art from the earliest eras of Japan’s (pre)history, including earthenware pottery and the striking terracotta figurines known as haniwa
Release Date: Wednesday, January 1 1958
66 years ago
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Portrait of Sumiko HanedaSumiko Haneda
Sumiko Haneda was
31 in Beauty of the Ancients
as 'Director'
Sun, Jan 03 1926