Naomi Kawase
Directing Born: 1969-05-30 Age: 56 Nara, Japan
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.
Movies
Love & Pop
Shara
Missing Pictures
Echoes of Motherhood
Women Make Films
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
The Tale of Iya
Shining Besides Funny Moon
It Stopped Raining
Kaleidoscope
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Katatsumori
Embracing
Destroy Vicious
Emergency Exit
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
Birth/Mother
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
See Heaven
Trace
