Director
Naomi Kawase
May 30, 1969 · 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Masatoshi Nagase
4 titles together
Sweet Bean, Radiance, Vision
Jun Murakami
3 titles together
Still the Water, Nanayo, It Stopped Raining
Machiko Ono
3 titles together
The Mourning Forest, Suzaku, Yakushima's Illusion
Kirin Kiki
2 titles together
Sweet Bean, Hanezu
Miyoko Asada
2 titles together
Sweet Bean, True Mothers
Taiga Nakano
2 titles together
Sweet Bean, It Stopped Raining
Full filmography · 50
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
as Tanaka
2026
Emergency Exit
cast
2025
Yakushima's Illusion
Director and Writer
2025
Echoes of Motherhood
cast
2025
echo
Director
2023
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
2022
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
2022
True Mothers
Director
20207.4
It Stopped Raining
as Koyomi's Mother
2020
The Moon
Director and Writer
2018
Vision
Director and Writer
20184.9
Cinema Fighters
Director and Writer
2018