Person
Naomi Kawase
Directing · Born 1969-05-30 · Nara, Japan
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
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Self
Homemade
Director
Inori
Producer
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Sweet Bean
Director
The Moon
Director
Yakushima's Illusion
Director
Shara
Reiko
Still the Water
Director
Filmography
- 2026Transit in FlamingoExecutive Producer
- 2026The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
- 2025Emergency Exit
- 2025Yakushima's IllusionDirector
- 2025Echoes of Motherhood
- 2023Beyond the FogProducer
- 2023echoDirector
- 2022Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side BDirector
- 2022Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side ADirector
- 2021To The FutureDirector
- 2021Tracing Her ShadowExecutive Producer
- 2021What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
- 2020True MothersDirector
- 2020HomemadeDirector
- 2020It Stopped RainingKoyomi's Mother
- 2019The Nikaidos' FallExecutive Producer
- 2018The MoonDirector
- 2018VisionDirector
- 2018Cinema FightersDirector
- 2018Parallel WorldDirector
- 2017Where Does the Sand Go?Director
- 2017RadianceDirector
- 2016AmamiSelf
- 2016LiesDirector
- 2016SeedDirector
- 2015A Midsummer's FantasiaProducer
- 2015Sweet BeanDirector
- 2014Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel WomenSelf
- 2014Still the WaterDirector
- 2013The Tale of IyaDr. Amamiya
- 2013Shining Besides Funny Moon
- 2012Hikaru Utada: Sakura NagashiDirector
- 2012TraceSelf
- 2012InoriProducer
- 2012HanezuDirector
- 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year ZeroDirector
- 20113.11 A Sense of Home FilmsDirector
- 2011Destroy Vicious
- 2010GenpinDirector
- 2009KomaDirector
- 2009HaikuDirector
- 2009Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi KawaseCinematography
- 2008NanayoDirector
- 2008Rien ne s'effaceelle-même
- 2007The Mourning ForestDirector
- 2006Birth/MotherSelf
- 2004Women Make FilmsSelf
- 2003SharaReiko
- 2002Letter from a Yellow Cherry BlossomSelf
- 2001Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, EarthSelf
- 2001FireflyDirector
- 1999KaleidoscopeSelf
- 1998The WealdDirector
- 1998Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, SempaiSelf
- 1998Love & PopWoman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- 1997SuzakuDirector
- 1996Sun on the HorizonSelf
- 1996This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)Director
- 1995Memory of the WindHerself
- 1995Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26Director
- 1995See HeavenSelf
- 1994KatatsumoriSelf
- 1993White MoonDirector
- 1992EmbracingSelf
- 1991Like HappinessDirector
- 1990The Girls' Daily BreadDirector
- 1989My Sole FamilyDirector
- 1989A Small LargenessDirector
- 1989Presently,Director
- 1988The Concretization of These Things Flying Around MeDirector
- 1988Papa's Ice CreamDirector
- 1988My J-W-FDirector
- 1988I Focus on That Which Interests MeDirector
- —Untitled Naomi Kawase FilmDirector
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