Naomi Kawase
Directing
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.
Born: May 30, 1969 · Nara, Japan
Filmography (20)
True Mothers
2020
DirectorScreenplay+1
TV
Homemade
2020
Director
It Stopped Raining
2020
Actor: Koyomi's Mother
Vision
2018
DirectorWriter+1
Radiance
2017
DirectorScreenplay
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015
Producer
Sweet Bean
2015
ScreenplayDirector+1
Still the Water
2014
DirectorScreenplay+2
The Tale of Iya
2013
Actor: Dr. Amamiya
Hanezu
2012
DirectorScreenplay+3
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Director
Nanayo
2008
DirectorScreenplay+2
The Mourning Forest
2007
DirectorScreenplay+1
Birth/Mother
2006
ActorDirector+1
Shara
2003
Actor: ReikoDirector+1
TV
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998
Actor
Love & Pop
1998
Actor: Woman speaking to …
Suzaku
1997
DirectorWriter
Katatsumori
1994
ActorDirector+4
Embracing
1992
ActorDirector+5