Naomi Kawase
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
23 titles
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Love & Pop
It Stopped Raining
Emergency Exit
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Shara
Shining Besides Funny Moon
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Destroy Vicious
Kaleidoscope
The Tale of Iya
Embracing
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Katatsumori
Echoes of Motherhood
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Birth/Mother
Amami
Sun on the Horizon
See Heaven
Women Make Films
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