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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
1998
star 7.7
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", wher...
It Stopped Raining
2020
star 7.7
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
2021
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
2014
star 6.5
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects t...
Shara
2003
star 6.5
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
2025
It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, th...
Destroy Vicious
2011
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.
The Tale of Iya
2013
star 6.9
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
2026
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
2001
star 6.4
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getti...
Kaleidoscope
1999
star 5.0
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actr...
Birth/Mother
2006
star 6.3
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working...
Echoes of Motherhood
2025
The love and conflicts between mother and daughter, and between husband and wife. The final chapter of Nakagawa...
Trace
2012
star 6.5
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
2002
star 6.3
Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the Camera Maini...
Women Make Films
2004
Memory of the Wind
1995
star 3.0
Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life...
Rien ne s'efface
2008
star 8.0
Amami
2016
star 6.5
Naomi Kawase goes to the south of Japan in search of her family origins on Amami Island, with her four-year-old...
See Heaven
1995
star 5.0
The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katatsumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing...
Katatsumori
1994
star 7.5
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster m...
Sun on the Horizon
1996
star 7.0
The last piece of Naomi Kawase's Grandmother Trilogy, following Katatsumori (1994) and See Heaven (1995), filmi...
Embracing
1992
star 6.3
A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen...