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Naomi Kawase
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
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Love & Pop
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", wher...
It Stopped Raining
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that...
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
A "movie" that is a mirror of the times. At the forefront of the movie, there are "important things" to know no...
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects t...
Shara
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five...
Emergency Exit
It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, th...
Destroy Vicious
Shining Besides Funny Moon
A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.
The Tale of Iya
As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old m...
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
When a girl raised by wolves is found in the woods, she must learn to forge her own path as those around her tr...
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getti...
Kaleidoscope
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actr...
Birth/Mother
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working...
Echoes of Motherhood
The love and conflicts between mother and daughter, and between husband and wife. The final chapter of Nakagawa...
Trace
Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a child. The f...
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the Camera Maini...
Women Make Films
Memory of the Wind
Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life...
Rien ne s'efface
Amami
Naomi Kawase goes to the south of Japan in search of her family origins on Amami Island, with her four-year-old...
See Heaven
The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katatsumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing...
Katatsumori
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster m...
Sun on the Horizon
The last piece of Naomi Kawase's Grandmother Trilogy, following Katatsumori (1994) and See Heaven (1995), filmi...
Embracing
A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen...