Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase

May 30, 1969 · 57 years old

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 rais…

Known For

12 titles
1
Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean

2015 · 1h 53m · Movie

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his suc...

7.4
2
Still the Water

Still the Water

2014 · 2h 1m · Movie

On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.

6.7
3
The Mourning Forest

The Mourning Forest

2007 · 1h 37m · Movie

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

6.7
4
Love & Pop

Love & Pop

1998 · 1h 50m · Movie

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

7.4
5
Radiance

Radiance

2017 · 1h 41m · Movie

A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.

6.4
6
True Mothers

True Mothers

2020 · 2h 20m · Movie

A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.

7.0
7
Suzaku

Suzaku

1997 · 1h 35m · Movie

Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.

7.4
8
Vision

Vision

2018 · 1h 49m · Movie

Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious aura and eccentric personality the woodsm...

5.2
9
The Tale of Iya

The Tale of Iya

2013 · 2h 49m · Movie

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.

6.9
10
A Midsummer's Fantasia

A Midsummer's Fantasia

2015 · 1h 36m · Movie

A Korean director visits a small village in Japan to find inspiration for his film.

6.6
11
Shizukana ame

Shizukana ame

2020 · 1h 39m · Movie

Yukisuke, a young man with a bad leg that forces him to limp constantly, strikes a romance with Koyomi, a young woman who runs a Taiyaki stall. Then she is hit by a car and lose her memory after she awakes from a coma.

6.3
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