Naomi Kawase
DirectingNaomi 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.
Known For
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
Shara
Reiko
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Emergency Exit
Shining Besides Funny Moon
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Destroy Vicious
Kaleidoscope
Self
Filmography — Acting
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
Shara
Reiko
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Emergency Exit
Shining Besides Funny Moon
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Destroy Vicious
Kaleidoscope
Self
See Heaven
Self
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
Katatsumori
Self
Women Make Films
Self
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self
Embracing
Self
Echoes of Motherhood
Memory of the Wind
Herself
Amami
Self
Trace
Self
Rien ne s'efface
elle-même
Birth/Mother
Self
Sun on the Horizon
Filmography — Crew
Radiance
Screenplay
Sweet Bean
Screenplay
Hanezu
Director
Suzaku
Writer
Still the Water
Director
Vision
Director
True Mothers
Director
The Mourning Forest
Screenplay
Shara
Director
Nanayo
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
Yakushima's Illusion
Director
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
Cinema Fighters
Director
Parallel World
Director
Beyond the Fog
Producer
Koma
Director
Where Does the Sand Go?
Writer
Lies
Director
Kaleidoscope
Director
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
Director
The Moon
Director
See Heaven
Director
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Director
Firefly
Director
Katatsumori
Director
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Director
Seed
Director
Inori
Producer
The Weald
Director
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Director
Embracing
Director
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Director
Genpin
Director
Memory of the Wind
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
Amami
Director
Presently,
Director
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
Director
Trace
Director
White Moon
Director
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
Director
To The Future
Director
Papa's Ice Cream
Director
My Sole Family
Director
Birth/Mother
Director
A Small Largeness
Director
echo
Director
Haiku
Director
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
Director
The Girls' Daily Bread
Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
Sun on the Horizon
Writer
Like Happiness
Director
My J-W-F
Director