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.
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
0.0
2025
Missing Pictures
Self
0.0
2021
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
(1 episode)
0.0
2021
It Stopped Raining
Koyomi's Mother
7.5
2020
Amami
Self
6.5
2016
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
6.5
2014
The Tale of Iya
Dr. Amamiya
6.9
2013
Shining Besides Funny Moon
0.0
2013
Trace
Self
6.5
2012
Destroy Vicious
0.0
2011
Birth/Mother
Self
6.3
2006
Shara
Reiko
6.4
2003
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Self
5.7
2002
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Self
6.0
2001
Kaleidoscope
Self
5.0
1999
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1998
Love & Pop
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
7.8
1998
Sun on the Horizon
7.0
1996
Memory of the Wind
Herself
3.0
1995
See Heaven
Self
5.0
1995
Katatsumori
Self
7.3
1994
Embracing
Self
6.2
1992
Emergency Exit
0.0