Naomi Kawase

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
May 30, 1969 (56 years old)

Naomi Kawase

Known For

What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
TV Show 2021

What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now

A "movie" that is a mirror of the times. At the forefront of the movie, there are "important things" to know now ... Kento Nakajima learns about such "movie now" through interviews and on-site interviews.

It Stopped Raining
1h 39m
Movie 2020

It Stopped Raining

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.

Amami
0h 46m
Movie 2016

Amami

Naomi Kawase goes to the south of Japan in search of her family origins on Amami Island, with her four-year-old son Mitsuki. They meet parents, chat with the island’s inhabitants, eat traditional goat soup, observe a total solar eclipse. By reconnecting the threads of her family history, Naomi Kawase gradually fills the void left by her parents' abandonment.

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2h 25m
Movie 2014

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.

Shining Besides Funny Moon
1h 50m
Movie 2013

Shining Besides Funny Moon

A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.

Biography

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.

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