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.

Filmography of Naomi Kawase

• Yakushima's Illusion (2025)
• echo (2023)
• Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
• Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)
• True Mothers (2020)
• Homemade (2020)
• Cinema Fighters (2018)
• The Moon (2018)
• Vision (2018)
• Parallel World (2018)
• Where Does the Sand Go? (2017)
• Radiance (2017)
• Seed (2016)
• Lies (2016)
• Amami (2016)
• Sweet Bean (2015)
• Still the Water (2014)
• Hanezu (2012)
• Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi (2012)
• 3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)
• 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
• Genpin (2010)
• Koma (2009)
• Haiku (2009)
• Nanayo (2008)
• The Mourning Forest (2007)
• Birth/Mother (2006)
• Shara (2003)
• Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002)
• Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001)
• Firefly (2001)
• Kaleidoscope (1999)
• The Weald (1998)
• Suzaku (1997)
• Sun on the Horizon (1996)
• This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) (1996)
• See Heaven (1995)
• Katatsumori (1994)
• White Moon (1993)
• Embracing (1992)