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Naomi Kawase

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1969-05-30 (55 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 74

Movies 69

Director 37

self 16

Producer 14

TV Shows 5

Voice 1

Producer

Naomi Kawase

Biography

Filmography

all 74

Movies 69

Director 37

self 16

Producer 14

TV Shows 5

Voice 1

Beyond the Fog (2023)

echo (2023)

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)

Missing Pictures (2021)

To The Future (2021)

Tracing Her Shadow (2021)

What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now (2021)

True Mothers (2020)

Homemade (2020)

It Stopped Raining (2020)

The Nikaidos' Fall (2019)

The Moon (2018)

Empire of Mirrors (2018)

Vision (2018)

Parallel World (2018)

Cinema Fighters (2018)

Where Does the Sand Go? (2017)

Radiance (2017)

Takayuki Yamada at Cannes Film Festival (2017)

Amami (2016)

Lies (2016)

Seed (2016)

A Midsummer's Fantasia (2015)

Sweet Bean (2015)

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)

Still the Water (2014)

The Tale of Iya (2013)

Shining Besides Funny Moon (2013)

Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi (2012)

Trace (2012)

Inori (2012)

Hanezu (2012)

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)

3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)

Destroy Vicious (2011)

Genpin (2010)

Last Chestnuts (2010)

Visitors (2009)

Koma (2009)

Haiku (2009)

Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (2009)

Nanayo (2008)

The Mourning Forest (2007)

Birth/Mother (2006)

Shara (2003)

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002)

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001)

Firefly (2001)

Kaleidoscope (1999)

The Weald (1998)

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai (1998)

Love & Pop (1998)

Suzaku (1997)

Sun on the Horizon (1996)

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

Memory of the Wind (1995)

See Heaven (1995)

Katatsumori (1994)

White Moon (1993)

Today's Close-Up (1993)

Embracing (1992)

Like Happiness (1991)

The Girls' Daily Bread (1990)

My Sole Family (1989)

A Small Largeness (1989)

Presently, (1989)

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me (1988)

Papa's Ice Cream (1988)

My J-W-F (1988)

Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1969-05-30 (55 years old)

Birth Place
Nara, Japan

Relationships
Takenori Sentō (1997 - 2000)

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
河瀨直美, 仙頭直美, Sentō Naomi, 가와세 나오미, 센토 나오미, Наоми Кавасэ, 河瀬直美, かわせなおみ

Awards
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, Caméra d'Or, Carrosse d'or, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres