Naomi Kawase
Directing
1969-05-30 · 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
TheatersEchoes of Motherhood
2026 · Movie
Transit in Flamingo
2026 · Movie
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026 · Movie
Emergency Exit
2025 · Movie
Yakushima's Illusion
2025 · Movie
Beyond the Fog
2023 · Movie
echo
2023 · Movie
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022 · Movie
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022 · Movie
To The Future
2021 · Movie
Tracing Her Shadow
2021 · Movie
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021 · Series
True Mothers
2020 · Movie
Homemade
2020 · Series
It Stopped Raining
2020 · Movie
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019 · Movie
The Moon
2018 · Movie
Vision
2018 · Movie
Cinema Fighters
2018 · Movie
Parallel World
2018 · Movie
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017 · Movie
Radiance
2017 · Movie
Amami
2016 · Movie
Lies
2016 · Movie
Seed
2016 · Movie
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015 · Movie
Sweet Bean
2015 · Movie
Amami
2015 · Movie
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Movie
Still the Water
2014 · Movie
The Tale of Iya
2013 · Movie
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013 · Movie
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012 · Movie
Trace
2012 · Movie
Inori
2012 · Movie
Hanezu
2012 · Movie
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Movie
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Movie
Destroy Vicious
2011 · Movie
Genpin
2010 · Movie
Koma
2009 · Movie
디지털 삼인삼색 2009 - 어떤 방문
2009 · Movie
Haiku
2009 · Movie
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009 · Movie
Nanayo
2008 · Movie
Rien ne s'efface
2008 · Movie
The Mourning Forest
2007 · Movie
Birth/Mother
2006 · Movie
Women Make Films
2004 · Movie
Shara
2003 · Movie
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002 · Movie
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001 · Movie
Firefly
2001 · Movie
Kaleidoscope
1999 · Movie
The Weald
1998 · Movie
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998 · Series
Love & Pop
1998 · Movie
Suzaku
1997 · Movie
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996 · Movie
Sun on the Horizon
1996 · Movie
Memory of the Wind
1995 · Movie
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
1995 · Movie
See Heaven
1995 · Movie
Katatsumori
1994 · Movie
White Moon
1993 · Movie
Embracing
1992 · Movie
Like Happiness
1991 · Movie
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990 · Movie
My Sole Family
1989 · Movie
A Small Largeness
1989 · Movie
Presently,
1989 · Movie
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988 · Movie
Papa's Ice Cream
1988 · Movie
My J-W-F
1988 · Movie
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988 · Movie
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
Movie