Naomi Kawase
Directing • AGE 57
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...
Filmography
Transit in Flamingo
Executive Producer
2026
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026
Emergency Exit
2025
Yakushima's Illusion
Director
2025
Echoes of Motherhood
2025
Beyond the Fog
Producer
2023
echo
Director
2023
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
2022
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
2022
Tracing Her Shadow
Executive Producer
2021
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021
True Mothers
Director
2020
Homemade
Director
2020
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
2020
The Nikaidos' Fall
Executive Producer
2019
The Moon
Director
2018
Vision
Director
2018
Cinema Fighters
Director
2018
Parallel World
Director
2018
Where Does the Sand Go?
Director
2017
Radiance
Director
2017
Amami
Self
2016
Lies
Director
2016
Seed
Director
2016
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
2015
Sweet Bean
Director
2015
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
2014
Still the Water
Director
2014
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
2013
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
Director
2012
Hanezu
Director
2012
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
2011
Destroy Vicious
2011
Genpin
Director
2010
Koma
Director
2009
Haiku
Director
2009
Nanayo
Director
2008
Rien ne s'efface
elle-même
2008
The Mourning Forest
Director
2007
Birth/Mother
Self
2006
Women Make Films
Self
2004
Shara
Reiko
2003
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
2002
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self
2001
Firefly
Director
2001
Kaleidoscope
Self
1999
The Weald
Director
1998
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Self
1998
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
1998
Suzaku
Director
1997
Sun on the Horizon
Self
1996
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
Director
1996
See Heaven
Self
1995
Katatsumori
Self
1994
White Moon
Director
1993
Embracing
Self
1992
Like Happiness
Director
1991
The Girls' Daily Bread
Director
1990
My Sole Family
Director
1989
A Small Largeness
Director
1989
Presently,
Director
1989
The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
Director
1988
Papa's Ice Cream
Director
1988
My J-W-F
Director
1988
I Focus on That Which Interests Me
Director
1988