Naomi Kawase
Director
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.
Filmography
Love & Pop
as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice) 1998
Shara
as Reiko 2003
The Tale of Iya
as Dr. Amamiya 2013
Katatsumori
as Self 1994
It Stopped Raining
as Koyomi's Mother 2020
Embracing
as Self 1992
Birth/Mother
as Self 2006
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
as Self 2001
Trace
as Self 2012
See Heaven
as Self 1995
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self 2014
Kaleidoscope
as Self 1999
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
as Self 2002
Memory of the Wind
as Herself 1995
Sun on the Horizon
1996
Amami
as Self 2016
Destroy Vicious
2011