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Naomi Kawase
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.
As director
Yakushima's Illusion
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Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
To The Future
True Mothers
Cinema Fighters
The Moon
Vision
Parallel World
Where Does the Sand Go?
Radiance
Seed
Lies
Amami
Sweet Bean
Still the Water
Hanezu
Trace
Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Genpin
Koma
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Haiku
Nanayo
The Mourning Forest
Birth/Mother
Shara
As actor
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Emergency Exit
Echoes of Motherhood
It Stopped Raining
Amami
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Shining Besides Funny Moon
The Tale of Iya
Trace
Destroy Vicious
Rien ne s'efface
Birth/Mother
Women Make Films
Shara
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Kaleidoscope
Love & Pop
Sun on the Horizon
See Heaven
Memory of the Wind
Katatsumori
Embracing