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.
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Films (72)
Echoes of Motherhood
2026
Transit in Flamingo
2026 · Executive Producer
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026 · Tanaka
Emergency Exit
2025
Yakushima's Illusion
2025 · Director, Writer
Beyond the Fog
2023 · Producer
echo
2023 · Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022 · Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022 · Director
To The Future
2021 · Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Tracing Her Shadow
2021 · Executive Producer
True Mothers
2020 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
It Stopped Raining
2020 · Koyomi's Mother
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019 · Executive Producer
The Moon
2018 · Director, Writer
Voyage à Yoshino
2018 · Director, Writer, Producer
Cinema Fighters
2018 · Director, Writer
Parallel World
2018 · Director
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017 · Writer, Director
Vers la lumière
2017 · Screenplay, Director
Amami
2016 · Self, Director
Lies
2016 · Director
Seed
2016 · Director, Writer
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015 · Producer
Les délices de Tokyo
2015 · Screenplay, Director, Associate Producer
Amami
2015 · Narrator (voice), Director
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Self
Still the Water
2014 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
The Tale of Iya
2013 · Dr. Amamiya
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012 · Director
Trace
2012 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Inori
2012 · Producer
Hanezu, l'esprit des montagnes
2012 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Director
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Director
Destroy Vicious
2011
Genpin
2010 · Director, Writer, Producer
Koma
2009 · Director
Haiku
2009 · Director
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Nanayo
2008 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Rien ne s'efface
2008 · elle-même
La forêt de Mogari
2007 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
Birth/Mother
2006 · Self, Director, Director of Photography
Women Make Films
2004 · Self
Shara
2003 · Reiko, Director, Writer
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Firefly
2001 · Director, Writer, Editor, Music
Kaleidoscope
1999 · Self, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
The Weald
1998 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Love and Pop
1998 · Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Suzaku
1997 · Writer, Director
Sun on the Horizon
1996 · Self, Writer, Director, Camera Operator
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996 · Director
Memory of the Wind
1995 · Herself, Director
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
1995 · Director
See Heaven
1995 · Self, Director
Katatsumori
1994 · Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
White Moon
1993 · Director
Embracing
1992 · Self, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Writer
Like Happiness
1991 · Director
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990 · Director
My Sole Family
1989 · Director
A Small Largeness
1989 · Director
Presently,
1989 · Director
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988 · Director
Papa's Ice Cream
1988 · Director
My J-W-F
1988 · Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988 · Director
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
· Director
