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Naomi Kawase (b. 1969)

Alias:
Sentō Naomi
Наоми Кавасэ
かわせなおみ
仙頭直美
河瀨直美
河瀬直美
가와세 나오미
센토 나오미

Birthplace:
Nara, Japan

Born:
May 30, 1969

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Performances

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Film Production

Associate Producer:
2015  Sweet Bean

Cinematography:
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2015  Sweet Bean

Director:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Trace
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  echo

Director of Photography:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Trace
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  echo

Editor:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Trace
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  echo

Executive Producer:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Trace
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  echo

Music:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Trace
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  echo

Producer:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Inori
2012  Trace
2014  A Midsummer's Fantasia
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  Beyond the Fog
2023  echo

Screenplay:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Inori
2012  Trace
2014  A Midsummer's Fantasia
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  Beyond the Fog
2023  echo

Sound Recordist:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Inori
2012  Trace
2014  A Midsummer's Fantasia
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  Beyond the Fog
2023  echo

Writer:
1988  I Focus on That Which Interests Me
1988  My J-W-F
1988  Papa's Ice Cream
1988  The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me
1989  A Small Largeness
1989  My Sole Family
1989  Presently,
1990  The Girls' Daily Bread
1991  Like Happiness
1992  Embracing
1993  White Moon
1994  Katatsumori
1995  Memory of the Wind
1995  See Heaven
1996  Sun on the Horizon
1996  This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)
1997  Suzaku
1998  The Weald
1999  Kaleidoscope
2001  Firefly
2001  Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
2002  Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2003  Shara
2006  Birth/Mother
2007  The Mourning Forest
2008  Nanayo
2009  Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
2009  Haiku
2009  Koma
2009  Visitors
2010  Genpin
2011  3.11 A Sense of Home
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2012  Hanezu
2012  Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi
2012  Inori
2012  Trace
2014  A Midsummer's Fantasia
2014  Still the Water
2015  Sweet Bean
2016  Lies
2016  Seed
2017  Radiance
2017  Where Does the Sand Go?
2018  CINEMA FIGHTERS
2018  Parallel World
2018  The Moon
2018  Vision
2019  The Nikaidos' Fall
2020  True Mothers
2021  To The Future
2021  Tracing Her Shadow
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
2022  Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
2023  Beyond the Fog
2023  echo

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TV Production

Director:
2020  Homemade

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