Naomi Kawase

Birthday: 1969-05-30
Birthplace: Nara, Japan
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
Amami
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
2023-09-15 echo
2022-06-24 Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022-06-03 Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2021-04-08 To The Future
2020-10-23 True Mothers
2018-12-13 The Moon
2018-06-08 Vision
2018-01-26 Cinema Fighters
2018-01-26 Parallel World
2017-06-30 Where Does the Sand Go?
2017-05-27 Radiance
2016-06-28 Lies
2016-02-17 Seed
2015-05-30 Sweet Bean
2014-06-01 Still the Water
2012-11-17 Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012-10-30 Trace
2012-02-01 Hanezu
2011-12-22 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011-11-04 3.11 A Sense of Home
2010-11-06 Genpin
2009-11-12 Visitors
2009-11-12 Koma
2009-09-03 Haiku
2009-04-16 Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2008-11-01 Nanayo
2007-05-29 The Mourning Forest
2006-08-10 Birth/Mother
2003-07-12 Shara
2002-04-06 Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2001-08-09 Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001-03-24 Firefly
1999-01-01 Kaleidoscope
1998-04-25 The Weald
1997-11-01 Suzaku
1996-01-01 Sun on the Horizon
1996-01-01 This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1995-12-31 Memory of the Wind
1995-06-06 See Heaven
1994-05-22 Katatsumori
1993-12-04 White Moon
1992-01-01 Embracing
1991-02-02 Like Happiness
1990-01-04 The Girls' Daily Bread
1989-03-09 My Sole Family
1989-02-24 A Small Largeness
1989-02-02 Presently,
1988-09-14 The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988-06-30 Papa's Ice Cream
1988-05-10 My J-W-F
1988-01-01 I Focus on That Which Interests Me