Naomi Kawase
Known for: Directing
Born: May 30, 1969
Place of birth: Nara, Japan
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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Filmography
71 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
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Echoes of Motherhood
2026
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Transit in Flamingo
2026
6.5
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026
4.0
Emergency Exit
2025
7.6
Yakushima's Illusion
2025
8.0
Beyond the Fog
2023
2.5
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
2022NR
To The Future
2021
6.6
Tracing Her Shadow
2021
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What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021
7.4
True Mothers
2020
5.5
Homemade
2020
7.5
It Stopped Raining
2020
4.7
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019
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The Moon
2018
4.9
Vision
2018
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Cinema Fighters
2018
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Parallel World
2018
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Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
6.5
Radiance
2017
6.5
Amami
2016
10.0
Lies
2016
3.0
Seed
2016
7.4
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015
7.5
Sweet Bean
2015
6.5
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
6.7
Still the Water
2014
6.9
The Tale of Iya
2013
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Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
20126.5
Trace
20122.8
Inori
2012
6.0
Hanezu
2012
4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
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Destroy Vicious
2011
5.0
Genpin
2010
6.0
Koma
2009
3.5
Haiku
20096.7
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009
7.0
Nanayo
2008
8.0
Rien ne s'efface
2008
6.8
The Mourning Forest
2007
6.6
Birth/Mother
2006
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Women Make Films
2004
6.3
Shara
2003
6.3
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
6.4
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
7.0
Firefly
2001
5.0
Kaleidoscope
1999
5.7
The Weald
1998
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Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998
7.7
Love & Pop
1998
7.3
Suzaku
1997
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
1996
1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
19963.0
Memory of the Wind
1995NR
Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26
1995
5.4
See Heaven
1995
7.8
Katatsumori
1994
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White Moon
1993
6.5
Embracing
1992
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Like Happiness
1991
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The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
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My Sole Family
1989
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A Small Largeness
1989
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Presently,
1989
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The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
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Papa's Ice Cream
1988
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My J-W-F
1988
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I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988NR
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
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