10.0
10.0
Lies
2016
Director
Naomi Kawase
Directing
Born:May 30, 1969(age 57)
Birthplace:Nara, Japan
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CommunityBiography
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 (70 movies)
8.0
8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
Director
8.0
8.0
Beyond the Fog
2023
Producer
7.7
7.7
Love & Pop
1998
as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
7.7
7.7
It Stopped Raining
2020
as Koyomi's Mother
7.4
7.4
Sweet Bean
2015
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
True Mothers
2020
Director
7.3
7.3
Katatsumori
1994
Director
7.3
7.3
Suzaku
1997
Director
7.2
7.2
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015
Producer
7.0
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Writer
7.0
7.0
Nanayo
2008
Producer
6.9
6.9
The Tale of Iya
2013
as Dr. Amamiya
6.8
6.8
Tracing Her Shadow
2021
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Still the Water
2014
Producer
6.8
6.8
The Mourning Forest
2007
Producer
6.7
6.7
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009
Director
6.5
6.5
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
as Self
6.5
6.5
Trace
2012
Writer
6.5
6.5
Amami
2016
Director
6.5
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Director
6.5
6.5
Radiance
2017
Director
6.3
6.3
Shara
2003
Director
6.3
6.3
Birth/Mother
2006
Director
6.2
6.2
Embracing
1992
Producer
6.0
6.0
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
Writer
6.0
6.0
Hanezu
2012
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
Director
6.0
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
Director
5.7
5.7
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
Director
5.7
5.7
The Weald
1998
Producer
5.0
5.0
Kaleidoscope
1999
Writer
5.0
5.0
See Heaven
1995
Director
5.0
5.0
Visitors
2009
Writer
5.0
5.0
Haiku
2009
Director
5.0
5.0
Genpin
2010
Director
4.9
4.9
Vision
2018
Director
4.7
4.7
The Nikaidos' Fall
2019
Executive Producer
3.8
3.8
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Director
3.0
3.0
Memory of the Wind
1995
Director
2.8
2.8
Inori
2012
Producer
1.0
1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996
Director
1.0
1.0
echo
2023
Director
1.0
1.0
Seed
2016
Writer
Echoes of Motherhood
2025
Missing Pictures
2021
as Self
Destroy Vicious
2011
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2025
Emergency Exit
2025
Women Make Films
2004
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
The Girls' Daily Bread
1990
Director
Presently,
1989
Director
White Moon
1993
Director
Parallel World
2018
Director
A Small Largeness
1989
Director
My Sole Family
1989
Director
Papa's Ice Cream
1988
Director
To The Future
2021
Director
Cinema Fighters
2018
Writer
My J-W-F
1988
Director
The Moon
2018
Writer
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1988
Director
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988
Director
Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
TBA
Director
Yakushima's Illusion
2026
Writer
Firefly
2001
Director
Where Does the Sand Go?
2017
Director
Koma
2009
Director
Like Happiness
1991
Director
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