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.

Cast

Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
Shara
Reiko
Destroy Vicious
Unknown
Shining Besides Funny Moon
Unknown
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self
Embracing
Self
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
Trace
Self
See Heaven
Self
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
Missing Pictures
Self
Birth/Mother
Self
Memory of the Wind
Herself
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
Sun on the Horizon
Unknown
Katatsumori
Self
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Amami
Self
Emergency Exit
Unknown
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Unknown
Kaleidoscope
Self
Echoes of Motherhood
Unknown
Women Make Films
Self

Crew

The Mourning Forest
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Shara
Writer, Director
Suzaku
Director, Writer
To The Future
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Hanezu
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Genpin
Director, Producer, Writer
Visitors
Director, Writer
The Nikaidos' Fall
Executive Producer
Inori
Producer
Trace
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
echo
Director
Kaleidoscope
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
Birth/Mother
Director, Director of Photography
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
The Weald
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Nanayo
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Embracing
Director, Sound Recordist, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
See Heaven
Director
Katatsumori
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Writer
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
Still the Water
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Koma
Director
Firefly
Director, Writer, Editor, Music
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
Sweet Bean
Director, Screenplay, Associate Producer
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Cinematography, Editor, Director
Cinema Fighters
Director, Writer
Sun on the Horizon
Writer, Director
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
Haiku
Director
The Moon
Director, Writer
Seed
Director, Writer
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
Memory of the Wind
Director
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
Director
Lies
Director
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
Director
The Girls' Daily Bread
Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
Director
A Small Largeness
Director
Papa's Ice Cream
Director
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Director
My Sole Family
Director
My J-W-F
Director
Like Happiness
Director
Presently,
Director
Beyond the Fog
Producer
Where Does the Sand Go?
Director, Writer
Radiance
Director, Screenplay
Vision
Director, Writer, Producer
White Moon
Director
Parallel World
Director
True Mothers
Director, Screenplay
Tracing Her Shadow
Executive Producer
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
Amami
Director
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
Director
Yakushima's Illusion
Director, Writer