Director
Naomi Kawase
1969Nara, Japan48 Films1 TV Episodes
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.
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Yakushima's Illusion
2025
1.0
echo
2023
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
7.4
True Mothers
2020
The Moon
2018
4.8
Vision
2018
Cinema Fighters
2018
Parallel World
2018
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
6.5
Radiance
2017
6.5
Amami
2016
10.0
Lies
2016
1.0
Seed
2016
7.4
Sweet Bean
2015
6.8
Still the Water
2014
8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
6.0
Hanezu
2012
3.8
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
5.0
Genpin
2010
Koma
2009
5.0
Haiku
2009
7.0
Nanayo
2008
6.8
The Mourning Forest
2007
6.3
Birth/Mother
2006
6.4
Shara
2003
5.7
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
6.0
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Firefly
2001
5.0
Kaleidoscope
1999
5.7
The Weald
1998
7.3
Suzaku
1997
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
1996
1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
5.0
See Heaven
1995
7.3
Katatsumori
1994
White Moon
1993
6.2
Embracing
1992
Like Happiness
1991
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
My Sole Family
1989
A Small Largeness
1989
Presently,
1989
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
Papa's Ice Cream
1988
My J-W-F
1988
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988Television
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