Naomi Kawase
May 30, 1969 (55 years old) in Nara, Japan
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
Credits
- 2021 · Missing Pictures as Self
- 2021 · What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now as
- 2020 · It Stopped Raining as Koyomi's Mother
- 2014 · Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
- 2013 · The Tale of Iya as Dr. Amamiya
- 2013 · Shining Besides Funny Moon as
- 2012 · Trace as Herself
- 2011 · Destroy Vicious as
- 2006 · Birth/Mother as Self
- 2003 · Shara as Reiko
- 2002 · Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom as Herself
- 2001 · Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth as Self
- 1998 · Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai as Self
- 1998 · Love & Pop as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- 1996 · Sun on the Horizon as
- 1995 · Memory of the Wind as Herself
- 1995 · See Heaven as Self
- 1994 · Katatsumori as Self
- 1992 · Embracing as Self
- Future · Amami as Self