Naomi Kawase
Born: 1969-05-30 in Nara, Japan
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
2023
- Beyond the Fog ... (Producer)
- echo ... (Director)
2022
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A ... (Director)
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B ... (Director)
2021
- Missing Pictures as Self
- What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
- Tracing Her Shadow ... (Executive Producer)
- To The Future ... (Director)
2020
- True Mothers ... (Director)
- Homemade ... (Director)
- It Stopped Raining as Koyomi's Mother
2019
- The Nikaidos' Fall ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Vision ... (Director)
- Cinema Fighters ... (Director)
- Parallel World ... (Director)
- The Moon ... (Director)
2017
- Radiance ... (Director)
- Where Does the Sand Go? ... (Director)
2015
- Sweet Bean ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Fantasia ... (Producer)
2014
- Still the Water ... (Director)
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
2013
- The Tale of Iya as Dr. Amamiya
- Shining Besides Funny Moon
2012
- Hanezu ... (Director)
- Inori ... (Producer)
- Trace as Self
- Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi ... (Director)
2011
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films ... (Director)
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero ... (Director)
- Destroy Vicious
2010
- Genpin ... (Director)
2009
- Koma ... (Director)
- Visitors ... (Director)
- Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase ... (Cinematography)
- Haiku ... (Director)
2008
- Nanayo ... (Director)
2007
- The Mourning Forest ... (Director)
2006
- Birth/Mother as Self
2004
- Women Make Films as Self
2003
- Shara as Reiko
2002
2001
- Firefly ... (Director)
- Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth as Self
1999
- Kaleidoscope as Self
1998
- Love & Pop as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai as Self
- The Weald ... (Director)
1997
- Suzaku ... (Director)
1996
1995
- See Heaven as Self
- Memory of the Wind as Herself
1994
- Katatsumori as Self
1993
- White Moon ... (Director)
1992
- Embracing as Self
1991
- Like Happiness ... (Director)
1990
- The Girls' Daily Bread ... (Director)
1989
- Presently, ... (Director)
- My Sole Family ... (Director)
- A Small Largeness ... (Director)
1988
- The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me ... (Director)
- I Focus on That Which Interests Me ... (Director)
- My J-W-F ... (Director)
- Papa's Ice Cream ... (Director)