Naomi Kawase
Directing
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.
As actor 25
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998
Emergency Exit
2025
Love & Pop
1998
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Destroy Vicious
2011
Shara
2003
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021
It Stopped Raining
2020
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
Echoes of Motherhood
2026
Rien ne s'efface
2008
The Tale of Iya
2013
Women Make Films
2004
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Katatsumori
1994
Kaleidoscope
1999
Embracing
1992
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Birth/Mother
2006
Memory of the Wind
1995
See Heaven
1995
Trace
2012
Amami
2016
On the crew 61
Homemade
2020
Radiance
2017
Still the Water
2014
Sweet Bean
2015
True Mothers
2020
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Yakushima's Illusion
2025
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Vision
2018
The Mourning Forest
2007
Suzaku
1997
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019
Shara
2003
Cinema Fighters
2018
Tracing Her Shadow
2021
Firefly
2001
Inori
2012
Hanezu
2012
Transit in Flamingo
2026
The Moon
2018
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015
Nanayo
2008
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
Beyond the Fog
2023
Seed
2016
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009
Koma
2009
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
Lies
2016
Parallel World
2018
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Katatsumori
1994
Kaleidoscope
1999
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
Embracing
1992
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
echo
2023
Genpin
2010
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
1995
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Birth/Mother
2006
The Weald
1998
Memory of the Wind
1995
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
See Heaven
1995
Trace
2012
A Small Largeness
1989
My J-W-F
1988
Haiku
2009
White Moon
1993
Presently,
1989
Amami
2016
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988
To The Future
2021
My Sole Family
1989
Like Happiness
1991
Papa's Ice Cream
1988