Naomi Kawase
Directing
Born May 30, 1969 in 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.
Filmography
Transit in Flamingo
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Emergency Exit
Yakushima's Illusion
Echoes of Motherhood
Beyond the Fog
echo
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Tracing Her Shadow
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
True Mothers
Homemade
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
The Nikaidos' Fall
The Moon
Vision
Cinema Fighters
Parallel World
Where Does the Sand Go?
Radiance
Amami
Self
Lies
Seed
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Sweet Bean
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Still the Water
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
Shining Besides Funny Moon
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Hanezu
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Destroy Vicious
Genpin
Koma
Haiku
Nanayo
Rien ne s'efface
elle-même
The Mourning Forest
Birth/Mother
Self
Women Make Films
Self
Shara
Reiko
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self
Firefly
Kaleidoscope
Self
The Weald
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Self
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Suzaku
Sun on the Horizon
Self
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
See Heaven
Self
Katatsumori
Self
White Moon
Embracing
Self
Like Happiness
The Girls' Daily Bread
My Sole Family
A Small Largeness
Presently,
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
Papa's Ice Cream
My J-W-F
I Focus on That Which Interests Me