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.
Love & Pop
(Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice))
Shara
(Reiko)
Destroy Vicious
Shining Besides Funny Moon
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
(Self)
Embracing
(Self)
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
(Herself)
Trace
(Herself)
See Heaven
(Self)
The Tale of Iya
(Dr. Amamiya)
Missing Pictures
(Self)
Birth/Mother
(Self)
Memory of the Wind
(Herself)
It Stopped Raining
(Koyomi's Mother)
Sun on the Horizon
Katatsumori
(Self)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
(Self)
Amami
(Self)
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
(Self)
The Mourning Forest
(Screenplay)
The Mourning Forest
(Producer)
The Mourning Forest
(Director)
Shara
(Director)
Shara
(Writer)
Suzaku
(Writer)
Suzaku
(Director)
To The Future
(Editor)
To The Future
(Director)
To The Future
(Director of Photography)
Hanezu
(Director)
Hanezu
(Screenplay)
Genpin
(Director)
Visitors
(Director)
The Nikaidos' Fall
(Executive Producer)
Inori
(Producer)
Trace
(Director)
Visitors
(Writer)
echo
(Director)
Kaleidoscope
(Director)
Birth/Mother
(Director)
The Weald
(Director)
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
(Director)
Nanayo
(Director)
Embracing
(Director)
See Heaven
(Director)
Katatsumori
(Director)
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
(Director)
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
(Director)
Still the Water
(Director)
Still the Water
(Screenplay)
Koma
(Director)
Firefly
(Director)
Firefly
(Writer)
A Midsummer's Fantasia
(Producer)
Sweet Bean
(Screenplay)
Sweet Bean
(Director)
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
(Director)
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
(Cinematography)
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
(Editor)
Cinema Fighters
(Director)
Sun on the Horizon
(Writer)
Sun on the Horizon
(Director)
Katatsumori
(Producer)
Katatsumori
(Director of Photography)
Katatsumori
(Editor)
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
(Director)
Haiku
(Director)
Still the Water
(Editor)
The Moon
(Director)
The Moon
(Writer)
Cinema Fighters
(Writer)
Hanezu
(Producer)
Seed
(Director)
Seed
(Writer)
3.11 A Sense of Home
(Director)
Katatsumori
(Writer)
Birth/Mother
(Director of Photography)
Memory of the Wind
(Director)
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
(Director)
Lies
(Director)
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
(Director)
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
(Director)
My Sole Family
(Director)
Like Happiness
(Director)
The Girls' Daily Bread
(Director)
Papa's Ice Cream
(Director)
My J-W-F
(Director)
Presently,
(Director)
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
(Director)
A Small Largeness
(Director)
Firefly
(Editor)
Firefly
(Music)
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
(Writer)
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
(Editor)
Beyond the Fog
(Producer)
Where Does the Sand Go?
(Writer)
Where Does the Sand Go?
(Director)
Radiance
(Screenplay)
Radiance
(Director)
Nanayo
(Screenplay)
Vision
(Director)
Still the Water
(Producer)
Vision
(Writer)
Vision
(Producer)
The Weald
(Writer)
Sweet Bean
(Associate Producer)
Hanezu
(Director of Photography)
Hanezu
(Editor)
White Moon
(Director)
Genpin
(Writer)
Genpin
(Producer)
Parallel World
(Director)
Nanayo
(Editor)
Nanayo
(Producer)
True Mothers
(Director)
Tracing Her Shadow
(Executive Producer)
Embracing
(Director of Photography)
Embracing
(Producer)
Embracing
(Editor)
Embracing
(Sound Recordist)
The Weald
(Producer)
The Weald
(Editor)
The Weald
(Director of Photography)
True Mothers
(Screenplay)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
(Director)
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
(Director of Photography)
Amami
(Director)
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
(Director)
Homemade
(Director)