Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase

Known for
Directing
Born
May 30, 1969 (age 57)
Birthplace
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

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Filmography

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Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

Movie · Director

2025
Yakushima's Illusion poster

Yakushima's Illusion

Movie · Director

2023
echo poster

echo

Movie · Director

2022
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B poster

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

Movie · Director

2022
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A poster

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

Movie · Director

2021
To The Future

To The Future

Movie · Director

2020
True Mothers poster

True Mothers

Movie · Director

2020
Homemade poster

Homemade

TV · Director · 1 ep

2018
Cinema Fighters poster

Cinema Fighters

Movie · Director

2018
The Moon poster

The Moon

Movie · Director

2018
Vision poster

Vision

Movie · Director

2018
Parallel World poster

Parallel World

Movie · Director

2017
Where Does the Sand Go? poster

Where Does the Sand Go?

Movie · Director

2017
Radiance poster

Radiance

Movie · Director

2016
Seed poster

Seed

Movie · Director

2016
Lies poster

Lies

Movie · Director

2016
Amami poster

Amami

Movie · Director

2015
Sweet Bean poster

Sweet Bean

Movie · Director

2015
Amami poster

Amami

Movie · Director

2014
Still the Water poster

Still the Water

Movie · Director

2012
Hanezu poster

Hanezu

Movie · Director

2012
Trace

Trace

Movie · Director

2012
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi poster

Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi

Movie · Director

2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films poster

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

Movie · Director

2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero poster

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Movie · Director

2010
Genpin poster

Genpin

Movie · Director

2009
Koma poster

Koma

Movie · Director

2009
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase

Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase

Movie · Director

2009
Haiku poster

Haiku

Movie · Director

2008
Nanayo poster

Nanayo

Movie · Director

2007
The Mourning Forest poster

The Mourning Forest

Movie · Director

2006
Birth/Mother poster

Birth/Mother

Movie · Director

2003
Shara poster

Shara

Movie · Director

2002
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom poster

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Movie · Director

2001
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth poster

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

Movie · Director

2001
Firefly poster

Firefly

Movie · Director

1999
Kaleidoscope poster

Kaleidoscope

Movie · Director

1998
The Weald poster

The Weald

Movie · Director

1997
Suzaku poster

Suzaku

Movie · Director

1996
Sun on the Horizon poster

Sun on the Horizon

Movie · Director

1996
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) poster

This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)

Movie · Director

1995
See Heaven poster

See Heaven

Movie · Director

1995
Memory of the Wind

Memory of the Wind

Movie · Director

1995
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26

Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26

Movie · Director

1994
Katatsumori poster

Katatsumori

Movie · Director

1993
White Moon poster

White Moon

Movie · Director

1992
Embracing poster

Embracing

Movie · Director

1991
Like Happiness poster

Like Happiness

Movie · Director

1990
The Girls' Daily Bread poster

The Girls' Daily Bread

Movie · Director

1989
Presently, poster

Presently,

Movie · Director

1989
My Sole Family poster

My Sole Family

Movie · Director

1989
A Small Largeness poster

A Small Largeness

Movie · Director

1988
Papa's Ice Cream poster

Papa's Ice Cream

Movie · Director

1988
My J-W-F poster

My J-W-F

Movie · Director

1988
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me poster

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me

Movie · Director

1988
I Focus on That Which Interests Me poster

I Focus on That Which Interests Me

Movie · Director