Naomi Kawase
🎬 Director

Naomi Kawase

🎂 Born 30 May 1969 (age 57)📍 Nara, Japan
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
48
Directed

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.

Known For

Love & Pop
★ 7.7
Love & Pop
1998
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Emergency Exit
★ 4.0
Emergency Exit
2025
It Stopped Raining
★ 7.7
It Stopped Raining
2020
Koyomi's Mother
Shara
★ 6.5
Shara
2003
Reiko

Directed Films(48)

Sweet Bean
★ 7.4
Sweet Bean
2015
Director
Still the Water
★ 6.7
Still the Water
2014
Director
Yakushima's Illusion
★ 8.0
Yakushima's Illusion
2025
Director
Suzaku
★ 7.3
Suzaku
1997
Director
True Mothers
★ 7.4
True Mothers
2020
Director
Radiance
★ 6.5
Radiance
2017
Director
The Mourning Forest
★ 6.8
The Mourning Forest
2007
Director
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
★ 6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Director
Shara
★ 6.5
Shara
2003
Director
Hanezu
★ 6.0
Hanezu
2012
Director
Vision
★ 4.9
Vision
2018
Director
Nanayo
★ 7.0
Nanayo
2008
Director
Cinema Fighters
Cinema Fighters
2018
Director
Kaleidoscope
★ 5.0
Kaleidoscope
1999
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
★ 4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Director
Lies
★ 10.0
Lies
2016
Director
Seed
★ 1.0
Seed
2016
Director
Firefly
★ 7.0
Firefly
2001
Director
Parallel World
Parallel World
2018
Director
Katatsumori
★ 7.5
Katatsumori
1994
Director
echo
★ 1.0
echo
2023
Director
Koma
★ 6.0
Koma
2009
Director
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
★ 6.4
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Director
Where Does the Sand Go?
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
★ 6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
Director
The Moon
The Moon
2018
Director
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
★ 1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
Director
See Heaven
★ 5.0
See Heaven
1995
Director
Embracing
★ 6.3
Embracing
1992
Director
White Moon
White Moon
1993
Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
★ 6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
Director
The Girls' Daily Bread
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
Director
The Weald
★ 5.7
The Weald
1998
Director
Sun on the Horizon
★ 7.0
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Director
Amami
★ 6.5
Amami
2016
Director
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
★ 6.3
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Director
Birth/Mother
★ 6.3
Birth/Mother
2006
Director
Genpin
★ 5.0
Genpin
2010
Director
My Sole Family
My Sole Family
1989
Director
Presently,
Presently,
1989
Director
Haiku
★ 5.0
Haiku
2009
Director
Like Happiness
Like Happiness
1991
Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988
Director
Papa's Ice Cream
Papa's Ice Cream
1988
Director
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
★ 8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
Director
A Small Largeness
A Small Largeness
1989
Director
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
Director
My J-W-F
My J-W-F
1988
Director

Full Filmography(21 films)

YearTitleRating
1998Love & Pop★ 7.72025Emergency Exit★ 4.02020It Stopped Raining★ 7.72003Shara★ 6.52013Shining Besides Funny Moon—2013The Tale of Iya★ 6.91999Kaleidoscope★ 5.02014Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women★ 6.52026The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard—2025Echoes of Motherhood—2011Destroy Vicious—1994Katatsumori★ 7.52004Women Make Films—2001Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth★ 6.41995See Heaven★ 5.01992Embracing★ 6.31996Sun on the Horizon★ 7.02016Amami★ 6.52002Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom★ 6.32006Birth/Mother★ 6.32008Rien ne s'efface★ 8.0
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