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Naomi Kawase
Born: 1969-05-30 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.
Rated Filmography (34)
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Lies
2016
8.0
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012
7.8
Katatsumori
1994
7.6
Yakushima's Illusion
2025
7.5
Sweet Bean
2015
7.4
True Mothers
2020
7.3
Suzaku
1997
7.0
Nanayo
2008
7.0
Firefly
2001
7.0
Sun on the Horizon
1996
6.8
The Mourning Forest
2007
6.7
Still the Water
2014
6.6
Birth/Mother
2006
6.5
Radiance
2017
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
6.5
Amami
2016
6.5
Embracing
1992
6.4
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2001
6.3
Shara
2003
6.3
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2002
6.0
Hanezu
2012
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2022
6.0
Koma
2009
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022
5.7
The Weald
1998
5.4
See Heaven
1995
5.0
Genpin
2010
5.0
Kaleidoscope
1999
4.9
Vision
2018
4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
3.5
Haiku
2009
3.0
Seed
2016
2.5
echo
2023
1.0
This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1996