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Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase

Birthday: 1969-05-30

Place of Birth: Nara, Japan

Biography: 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.

Movies

Love & Pop
Love & Pop

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated da...

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Shara
Shara

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disap...

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Destroy Vicious
Destroy Vicious

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Shining Besides Funny Moon
Shining Besides Funny Moon

A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides....

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Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemp...

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Embracing
Embracing

A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she ha...

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Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the C...

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Trace
Trace

Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a c...

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See Heaven
See Heaven

The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma",...

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The Tale of Iya
The Tale of Iya

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched region...

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Missing Pictures
Missing Pictures

For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the b...

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Birth/Mother
Birth/Mother

Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film dire...

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Memory of the Wind
Memory of the Wind

Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels b...

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It Stopped Raining
It Stopped Raining

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki p...

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Sun on the Horizon
Sun on the Horizon

The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and her...

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Katatsumori
Katatsumori

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of h...

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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory"...

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Amami
Amami

Naomi Kawase goes to the south of Japan in search of her family origins on Amami Island, with her fo...

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Emergency Exit
Emergency Exit

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along ...

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The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard

When a girl raised by wolves is found in the woods, she must learn to forge her own path as those ar...

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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two...

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Echoes of Motherhood
Echoes of Motherhood

The love and conflicts between mother and daughter, and between husband and wife. The final chapter ...

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Women Make Films
Women Make Films

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