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.
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
1998 · TV
Love & Pop
1998 · Movie
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
2021 · TV
It Stopped Raining
2020 · Movie
Emergency Exit
2025 · Movie
Shara
2003 · Movie
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2026 · Movie
The Tale of Iya
2013 · Movie
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Movie
Shining Besides Funny Moon
2013 · Movie
Kaleidoscope
1999 · Movie
Destroy Vicious
2011 · Movie
Katatsumori
1994 · Movie
Echoes of Motherhood
2025 · Movie
Embracing
1992 · Movie
Sun on the Horizon
1996 · Movie
Birth/Mother
2006 · Movie
Women Make Films
2004 · Movie
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001 · Movie
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002 · Movie
Rien ne s'efface
2008 · Movie
See Heaven
1995 · Movie
Amami
2016 · Movie
