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