Naomi Kawase
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.
55 directing credits · 25 acting credits
Directing · 55
Homemade
2020
Sweet Bean
2015
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Suzaku
1997
Yakushima's Illusion
2025
True Mothers
2020
Still the Water
2014
Radiance
2017
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Cinema Fighters
2018
Vision
2018
The Mourning Forest
2007
Shara
2003
Hanezu
2012
The Moon
2018
Koma
2009
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Firefly
2001
Kaleidoscope
1999
Nanayo
2008
Seed
2016
Parallel World
2018
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009
Birth/Mother
2006
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
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Trace
2012
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Memory of the Wind
1995
To The Future
2021
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
A Small Largeness
1989
Presently,
1989
My Sole Family
1989
Lies
2016
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
Amami
2016
See Heaven
1995
Katatsumori
1994
Sun on the Horizon
1996
White Moon
1993
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
echo
2023
Genpin
2010
Papa's Ice Cream
1988
The Weald
1998
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
Haiku
2009
Embracing
1992
Like Happiness
1991
My J-W-F
1988
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
1995
Acting · 25
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998
Love & Pop
1998
It Stopped Raining
2020
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Shara
2003
Emergency Exit
2025
Destroy Vicious
2011
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
The Tale of Iya
2013
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Kaleidoscope
1999
Birth/Mother
2006
Echoes of Motherhood
2025
Trace
2012
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Women Make Films
2004
Memory of the Wind
1995
Rien ne s'efface
2008
Amami
2016
See Heaven
1995
Katatsumori
1994
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Embracing
1992