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.
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Filmography
all 69
Movies 64
Director 39
self 16
Producer 6
TV Shows 5
Voice 1
Producer
Beyond the Fog (2023)
Movie
Director
echo (2023)
Movie
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
Movie
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)
Movie
Actress
Missing Pictures (2021)
Movie
Director / Director of Photography / Editor
To The Future (2021)
Movie
Executive Producer
Tracing Her Shadow (2021)
Movie
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now (2021)
TV
Director
True Mothers (2020)
Movie
Director
Homemade (2020)
TV
Koyomi's Mother
It Stopped Raining (2020)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Nikaidos' Fall (2019)
Movie
Director / Writer
The Moon (2018)
Movie
Director
Vision (2018)
Movie
Director
Parallel World (2018)
Movie
Director
CINEMA FIGHTERS (2018)
Movie
Director
Where Does the Sand Go? (2017)
Movie
Director
Radiance (2017)
Movie
Self
山田孝之のカンヌ映画祭 (2017)
TV
Director
Lies (2016)
Movie
Director
Seed (2016)
Movie
Director
Sweet Bean (2015)
Movie
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Producer
A Midsummer's Fantasia (2014)
Movie
Self
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
Movie
Director
Still the Water (2014)
Movie
Dr. Amamiya
The Tale of Iya (2013)
Movie
Actress
Shining Besides Funny Moon (2013)
Movie
Director
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi (2012)
Movie
Self
Trace (2012)
Movie
Producer
Inori (2012)
Movie
Director
Hanezu (2012)
Movie
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
Movie
Director
3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)
Movie
Destroy Vicious (2011)
Movie
Director
Genpin (2010)
Movie
Producer
Last Chestnuts (2010)
Movie
Director
Visitors (2009)
Movie
Director
Koma (2009)
Movie
Director
Haiku (2009)
Movie
Self
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (2009)
Movie
Director
Nanayo (2008)
Movie
Director
The Mourning Forest (2007)
Movie
Self
Birth/Mother (2006)
Movie
Reiko
Shara (2003)
Movie
Self
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002)
Movie
Self
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001)
Movie
Director
Firefly (2001)
Movie
Self
Kaleidoscope (1999)
Movie
Self
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai (1998)
TV
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Love & Pop (1998)
Movie
Director
Suzaku (1997)
Movie
Director
The Weald (1997)
Movie
Self
Sun on the Horizon (1996)
Movie
Director
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) (1996)
Movie
Director
Memory of the Wind (1995)
Movie
Self
See Heaven (1995)
Movie
Self
Katatsumori (1994)
Movie
Director
White Moon (1993)
Movie
Self
Today's Close-Up (1993)
TV
Self
Embracing (1992)
Movie
Director
Like Happiness (1991)
Movie
Director
The Girls' Daily Bread (1990)
Movie
Director
My Sole Family (1989)
Movie
Director
A Small Largeness (1989)
Movie
Director
Presently, (1989)
Movie
Director
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me (1988)
Movie
Self
Papa's Ice Cream (1988)
Movie
Self
My J-W-F (1988)
Movie
Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me (1988)
Movie
Ratings
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1997
2011
2002
2023
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Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1969-05-30 (54 years old)
Birth PlaceNara, Japan
RelationshipsTakenori Sentō (1997-10-01 - 2000-03-01)
CitizenshipsJapan
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
AwardsCannes Film Festival Grand Prix, Caméra d'Or, Carrosse d'or, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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