Naomi Kawase
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.
Known For
Homemade
Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai
Love & Pop
Yakushima's Illusion
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
Sweet Bean
Emergency Exit
Suzaku
Still the Water
True Mothers
Radiance
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
A Midsummer's Fantasia
The Mourning Forest
Vision
It Stopped Raining
Koma
3.11 A Sense of Home Films