Naomi Kawase

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Naomi Kawase

Directing 57 May 30, 1969

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…

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Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean

7.5 2015 Movie
Still the Water

Still the Water

6.7 2014 Movie
Radiance

Radiance

6.5 2017 Movie
True Mothers

True Mothers

7.4 2020 Movie
Love & Pop

Love & Pop

7.7 1998 Movie
Homemade

Homemade

5.5 2020 TV Show
The Mourning Forest

The Mourning Forest

6.8 2007 Movie
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

1998 TV Show
Suzaku

Suzaku

7.3 1997 Movie
Shara

Shara

6.3 2003 Movie
Vision

Vision

4.9 2018 Movie
The Tale of Iya

The Tale of Iya

6.9 2013 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Echoes of Motherhood

    Movie

  2. 2026
    Transit in Flamingo

    Movie Executive Producer

  3. 2026
    The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard

    Movie Tanaka

  4. 2025
    Emergency Exit

    Movie

  5. 2025
    Yakushima's Illusion

    Movie Director

  6. 2023
    Beyond the Fog

    Movie Producer

  7. 2023
    echo

    Movie Director

  8. 2022
    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

    Movie Director

  9. 2022
    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

    Movie Director

  10. 2021
    To The Future

    Movie Director

  11. 2021
    Tracing Her Shadow

    Movie Executive Producer

  12. 2021
    What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now

    TV show

  13. 2020
    True Mothers

    Movie Director

  14. 2020
    Homemade

    TV show Director

  15. 2020
    It Stopped Raining

    Movie Koyomi's Mother

  16. 2019
    The Nikaidos' Fall

    Movie Executive Producer

More credits
  1. 2018
    The Moon

    Movie Director

  2. 2018
    Vision

    Movie Director

  3. 2018
    Cinema Fighters

    Movie Director

  4. 2018
    Parallel World

    Movie Director

  5. 2017
    Where Does the Sand Go?

    Movie Director

  6. 2017
    Radiance

    Movie Director

  7. 2016
    Amami

    Movie Self

  8. 2016
    Lies

    Movie Director

  9. 2016
    Seed

    Movie Director

  10. 2015
    A Midsummer's Fantasia

    Movie Producer

  11. 2015
    Sweet Bean

    Movie Screenplay

  12. 2014
    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    Movie Self

  13. 2014
    Still the Water

    Movie Director

  14. 2013
    The Tale of Iya

    Movie Dr. Amamiya

  15. 2013
    Shining Besides Funny Moon

    Movie

  16. 2012
    Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi

    Movie Director

  17. 2012
    Trace

    Movie Self

  18. 2012
    Inori

    Movie Producer

  19. 2012
    Hanezu

    Movie Director

  20. 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    Movie Director

  21. 2011
    3.11 A Sense of Home Films

    Movie Director

  22. 2011
    Destroy Vicious

    Movie

  23. 2010
    Genpin

    Movie Director

  24. 2009
    어떤 방문

    Movie Director