
Naomi Kawase
Director
Born: May 30, 1969 (56 years old)
Place of birth: Nara, Japan
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 (19)
- Love & Pop (1998, ★ 7.7)
- Sweet Bean (2015, ★ 7.4)
- Embracing (1992, ★ 6.2)
- The Tale of Iya (2013, ★ 6.9)
- It Stopped Raining (2020, ★ 7.7)
- Katatsumori (1994, ★ 7.4)
- Shara (2003, ★ 6.4)
- Birth/Mother (2006, ★ 6.3)
- The Mourning Forest (2007, ★ 6.8)
- Suzaku (1997, ★ 7.3)
- Nanayo (2008, ★ 7)
- A Midsummer's Fantasia (2015, ★ 7.3)
- True Mothers (2020, ★ 7.4)
- Hanezu (2012, ★ 6)
- Still the Water (2014, ★ 6.8)
- Radiance (2017, ★ 6.5)
- Vision (2018, ★ 4.9)
- Homemade (2020, ★ 5.5)
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011, ★ 3.8)