Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase

b. 1969 (age 57) Nara, Japan

Director Writer

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. 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.

Known For

Suzaku

True Mothers

Still the Water

Still the Water

Sweet Bean

Filmography

The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard

The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard

Yakushima's Illusion

Yakushima's Illusion

2025 Director Writer

Emergency Exit

Echoes of Motherhood

Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang

All Kids Cry in the Same Voice: Making of Tracing Her Shadow

True Mothers

2020 Director Writer

Homemade

Shizukana ame

Endless Cinema

Variations Kawase

Vision

2018 Director Writer

Cinema Fighters

Cinema Fighters

2018 Director Writer

Empire of Mirrors

Empire of Mirrors

Parallel World

L'image originelle

Radiance

2017 Director Writer

Takayuki Yamada's Cannes Film Festival

Takayuki Yamada's Cannes Film Festival

Where Does the Sand Go?

2017 Director Writer

2016 Director Writer

Lies

2016 Director Writer

Sweet Bean

2015 Director Writer

Still the Water

Still the Water

2014 Director Writer

2012 Self Director Writer

Saezaete nao kokkeina tsuki

Natsume no omimi

Hanezu

2011 Director Writer Cinematographer

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

Hôga wo irodotta joyû tachi

Destroy Vicious

Genpin

2010 Director Writer

2009 Director Writer

2009 Director Writer

Nanayo

2008 Director Writer

Rien ne s'efface

The Mourning Forest

The Mourning Forest

2007 Director Writer

Birth/Mother

2006 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

2004 Director Writer

Shara

2003 Actress Director Writer

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

2002 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

2001 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

Firefly

2000 Director Writer Composer

Kaleidoscope

1999 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

Love & Pop

Suzaku

1997 Director Writer

1997 Director Writer Cinematographer

Sun on the Horizon

1996 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

1996 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

See Heaven

1995 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

Memory of the Wind: At Shibuya on December 26, 1995

1995 Director Writer Cinematographer

Katatsumori

1994 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

1993 Director Writer Cinematographer

Today's Close Up

Embracing

1992 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

1991 Director Writer Cinematographer

The Girls' Daily Bread

The Girls' Daily Bread

1990 Director Writer Cinematographer

A Small Largeness

1989 Director Writer Cinematographer

1989 Director Writer Cinematographer

1989 Director Writer Cinematographer

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me

1988 Director Writer Cinematographer

Papa's Ice Cream

1988 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

I Focus on That Which Interests Me

1988 Director Writer Cinematographer

1988 Self Director Writer Cinematographer

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