Personal Info
Birthday
May 30, 1969
Place of Birth
Nara, Japan
Known For
Directing
Naomi Kawase
Biography
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.
Directed Movies (49)
8.0
Yakushima's Illusion
Movie2025
No Backdrop
1.0
echo
Movie2023
No Backdrop
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Movie2022
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Movie2022
7.4
True Mothers
Movie2020
5.5
Homemade
TV Series2020
No Backdrop
0.0
The Moon
Movie2018
4.9
Vision
Movie2018
0.0
Cinema Fighters
Movie2018
No Backdrop
0.0
Parallel World
Movie2018
No Backdrop
0.0
Where Does the Sand Go?
Movie2017
6.5
Radiance
Movie2017
No Backdrop
6.5
Amami
Movie2016
No Backdrop
10.0
Lies
Movie2016
No Backdrop
1.0
Seed
Movie2016
7.4
Sweet Bean
Movie2015
6.7
Still the Water
Movie2014
No Backdrop
8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Movie2012
6.0
Hanezu
Movie2012
4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Movie2011
No Backdrop
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Movie2011
5.0
Genpin
Movie2010
No Backdrop
6.0
Koma
Movie2009
No Backdrop
5.0
Haiku
Movie2009
7.0
Nanayo
Movie2008
6.8
The Mourning Forest
Movie2007
No Backdrop
6.3
Birth/Mother
Movie2006
6.5
Shara
Movie2003
6.3
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Movie2002
6.4
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Movie2001
7.0
Firefly
Movie2001
5.0
Kaleidoscope
Movie1999
5.7
The Weald
Movie1998
7.3
Suzaku
Movie1997
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
Movie1996
1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
Movie1996
5.0
See Heaven
Movie1995
7.6
Katatsumori
Movie1994
No Backdrop
0.0
White Moon
Movie1993
6.3
Embracing
Movie1992
No Backdrop
0.0
Like Happiness
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
The Girls' Daily Bread
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
My Sole Family
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
A Small Largeness
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Presently,
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
Papa's Ice Cream
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
My J-W-F
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
Movie1988
Acting Filmography (23)
0.0
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Movie2026
4.0
Emergency Exit
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
Echoes of Motherhood
Movie2025
0.0
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
TV Series2021
7.7
It Stopped Raining
Movie2020
No Backdrop
6.5
Amami
Movie2016
No Backdrop
6.5
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Movie2014
6.9
The Tale of Iya
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Shining Besides Funny Moon
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Destroy Vicious
Movie2011
8.0
Rien ne s'efface
Movie2008
No Backdrop
6.3
Birth/Mother
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Women Make Films
Movie2004
6.5
Shara
Movie2003
6.3
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Movie2002
6.4
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Movie2001
5.0
Kaleidoscope
Movie1999
No Backdrop
0.0
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
TV Series1998
7.7
Love & Pop
Movie1998
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
Movie1996
5.0
See Heaven
Movie1995
7.6
Katatsumori
Movie1994
6.3
Embracing
Movie1992