
Directing · 56 years old
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.

Rien ne s'efface
elle-même

Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother

Katatsumori
Self

Sun on the Horizon

The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self

Amami
Self

Shara
Reiko

Birth/Mother
Self

Embracing
Self

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self

See Heaven
Self

Kaleidoscope
Self

Destroy Vicious

Shining Besides Funny Moon

Emergency Exit

The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard

Echoes of Motherhood