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1955年生まれ。　鹿児島県出身。
1977年 日本大学芸術学部映画学科在籍中より、映画制作に助監督として参加。映画の現場を体得していく。往年の東映、日活のロマンポルノが一般映画より活気があった時期を過ごす。
1984 年よりドラマ監督としてスタート、昼メロと呼ばれた昼のドラマ枠「愛の嵐」（CX系）で「嵐が丘」を昭和初期の設定にした文芸調の作風で、高視聴率を得て華々しくデビューする。
以後TVドラマで活躍。代表作は「華の嵐」「ホテルウーマン」「永遠の仔」「別れさせ屋」など。そのかたわらオリジナルビデオシネマ「パンドラの箱」「新・湾岸ミッドナイト1・2」を手掛ける。
2001年 若者から高い支持を得ている冬目景原作コミック『羊のうた』で映画監督デビュー。同年の東京国際映画祭コンペンション正式出品作品に選ばれ、監督の得意とする繊細な人間ドラマとして高い評価を得る。映画監督作品第2作目、「夢 追いかけて」は全盲ながらも普通中学の教師となり、パラリンピックにも3回出場した河合純一の真実と感動の半生を描いた作品。

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Born in Kagoshima in 1955, Hanado began work as an assistant director in 1977 while studying film at Nihon Universityﾕs College of Art. He learned his trade hands-on at a time when there was more energy in the ﾒRomantic Pornoﾓ produced by the Toei and Nikkatsu studios than in regular films.
He began directing dramatic works in 1984, earning high ratings and a sparkling debut in television soap operas with Ai no arashi (Love Storm), a literary retelling of Wuthering Heights in an early-Showa Period setting. He continued working in television dramas, directing work such as Hana no arashi (Tempest of Flowers), Hoteru Uman (Hotel Woman) and Eien no ko (Forever Child), which received the Galaxy Prize. Meanwhile, he also undertook work in direct-to-video films such as Shin wangan middonaito 1 & 2 (New Gulf Midnight 1 & 2).

In 2001, Hanado made his cinematic directorial debut with Hitsuji no uta (Lament of a Lamb), based on a comic book of the same name by Kei Tome that was popular among young people. That same year, the film was officially selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival Competition, where he received high marks for his trademark attention to detail in depicting human drama.
His second work as a cinematic director was Yume oikakete (Touch a Dream), the moving true story of Junﾕichi Kawai, a three-time blind Paralympian who became a junior high school teacher despite being totally blind. Recent work includes Furyo shonen no yume (A Delinquentﾕs Dream) in 2005 and Anata wo wasurenai (I Wonﾕt Forget You), a 2006 Japanese-Korean collaboration commemorating the 2005 Year of Friendship. 2006 will also see the release of KOOLS, a film about a softball team put together by women with gender identity disorders.