Naomi Kawase
- Directing
- May 30, 1969 · 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
Filmography
- Echoes of Motherhood
- Transit in Flamingo · Executive producer
- The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard · Tanaka
- Emergency Exit
- Yakushima's Illusion · Director, Writer
- Beyond the Fog · Producer
- echo · Director
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B · Director
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A · Director
- To The Future · Director, Cinematography
- Tracing Her Shadow · Executive producer
- What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
- True Mothers · Director, Screenplay
- Homemade · Director
- It Stopped Raining · Koyomi's Mother
- The Nikaidos' Fall · Executive producer
- The Moon · Director, Writer
- Vision · Director, Writer
- Cinema Fighters · Director, Writer
- Parallel World · Director
- Where Does the Sand Go? · Director, Writer
- Radiance · Director, Screenplay
- Amami · Self, Director
- Lies · Director
- Seed · Director, Writer
- A Midsummer's Fantasia · Producer
- Sweet Bean · Director, Screenplay
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women · Self
- Still the Water · Director, Screenplay
- The Tale of Iya · Dr. Amamiya
- Shining Besides Funny Moon
- Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi · Director
- Trace · Self, Director
- Inori · Producer
- Hanezu · Director, Screenplay
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero · Director
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films · Director
- Destroy Vicious
- Genpin · Director, Producer
- Koma · Director
- Haiku · Director
- Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase · Cinematography, Editing
- Nanayo · Director, Screenplay
- Rien ne s'efface · elle-même
- The Mourning Forest · Director, Screenplay
- Birth/Mother · Self, Director
- Women Make Films · Self
- Shara · Reiko, Writer
- Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom · Self, Director
- Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth · Self, Director
- Firefly · Director, Writer
- Kaleidoscope · Self, Director
- The Weald · Director, Writer
- Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai · Self
- Love & Pop · Woman speaking to Hiromi (Voice)
- Suzaku · Director, Writer
- Sun on the Horizon · Self, Writer
- This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) · Director
- Memory of the Wind · Self, Director
- Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26 · Director
- See Heaven · Self, Director
- Katatsumori · Self, Director
- White Moon · Director
- Embracing · Self, Director
- Like Happiness · Director
- The Girls' Daily Bread · Director
- My Sole Family · Director
- A Small Largeness · Director
- Presently, · Director
- The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me · Director
- Papa's Ice Cream · Director
- My J-W-F · Director
- I Focus on That Which Interests Me · Director
- Untitled Naomi Kawase Film · Director