Known For
Directing
Born
May 30, 1969
Place of Birth
Nara, Japan
Credits
74 titles
Naomi Kawase
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Echoes of Motherhood
Transit in Flamingo
Executive Producer
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Tanaka
Emergency Exit
Yakushima's Illusion
Director
Beyond the Fog
Producer
echo
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
To The Future
Director
Tracing Her Shadow
Executive Producer
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
True Mothers
Director
Homemade
Director
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
The Nikaidos' Fall
Executive Producer
The Moon
Director
Vision
Director
Cinema Fighters
Director
Parallel World
Director
Where Does the Sand Go?
Director
Radiance
Director
Amami
Self
Lies
Director
Seed
Director
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
Sweet Bean
Screenplay
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Still the Water
Director
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
Shining Besides Funny Moon
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Director
Trace
Self
Inori
Producer
Hanezu
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
Destroy Vicious
Genpin
Director
Koma
Director
Haiku
Director
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Director
Nanayo
Director
Rien ne s'efface
elle-même
The Mourning Forest
Director
Birth/Mother
Self
Women Make Films
Self
Shara
Reiko
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self