Naomi Kawase
Directing · Born 1969-05-30 · age 57 · Nara, Japan
Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi, born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director. She graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother who raised her. Aside from being a filmmaker, she is the founder and Executive Director for the Nara International Film Festival.
Titles
Sweet Bean
Radiance
Still the Water
True Mothers
Love & Pop
The Mourning Forest
Shara
Suzaku
Vision
Homemade
The Tale of Iya
Hanezu
Nanayo
Katatsumori
A Midsummer's Fantasia
It Stopped Raining
Embracing
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Birth/Mother
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Tracing Her Shadow
Genpin
Inori
Trace
Kaleidoscope
See Heaven
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
The Nikaidos' Fall
The Weald
Yakushima's Illusion
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Emergency Exit
Rien ne s'efface
echo
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Koma
Firefly
Sun on the Horizon
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Haiku
Seed
Memory of the Wind
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
Lies
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Beyond the Fog
Amami
Destroy Vicious
Shining Besides Funny Moon
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Echoes of Motherhood
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
Cinema Fighters
The Moon
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
My Sole Family
Like Happiness
The Girls' Daily Bread