Naomi Kawase
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.
Known For
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Love & Pop
Emergency Exit
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
It Stopped Raining
The Tale of Iya
Shara
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
All Movies (23)
- The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard2026
- Emergency Exit2025
- Echoes of Motherhood2025
- It Stopped Raining2020 · as Koyomi's Mother
- Amami2016 · as Self
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women2014 · as Self
- The Tale of Iya2013 · as Dr. Amamiya
- Shining Besides Funny Moon2013
- Trace2012 · as Self
- Destroy Vicious2011
- Rien ne s'efface2008 · as elle-même
- Birth/Mother2006 · as Self
- Women Make Films2004 · as Self
- Shara2003 · as Reiko
- Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom2002 · as Self
- Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth2001 · as Self
- Kaleidoscope1999 · as Self
- Love & Pop1998 · as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- Sun on the Horizon1996 · as Self
- Memory of the Wind1995 · as Herself
- See Heaven1995 · as Self
- Katatsumori1994 · as Self
- Embracing1992 · as Self