Naomi Kawase
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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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The Moon (2018)
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Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (2009)
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Yakushima's Illusion (2025)
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Koma (2009)
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Still the Water (2014)
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Radiance (2017)
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Sweet Bean (2015)
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True Mothers (2020)
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Suzaku (1997)
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3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)
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Genpin (2010)
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Firefly (2001)
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The Mourning Forest (2007)
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Memory of the Wind (1995)
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Shara (2003)
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Vision (2018)
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Lies (2016)
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Sun on the Horizon (1996)
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White Moon (1993)
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Cinema Fighters (2018)
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Trace (2012)
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Hanezu (2012)
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60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
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Birth/Mother (2006)
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Kaleidoscope (1999)
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Nanayo (2008)
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Seed (2016)
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Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001)
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Katatsumori (1994)
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Embracing (1992)
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The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me (1988)
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See Heaven (1995)
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Where Does the Sand Go? (2017)
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Papa's Ice Cream (1988)
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The Girls' Daily Bread (1990)
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A Small Largeness (1989)
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My J-W-F (1988)
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This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) (1996)
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Amami (2016)
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My Sole Family (1989)
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Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi (2012)
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Presently, (1989)
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The Weald (1998)
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Like Happiness (1991)
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Parallel World (2018)
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Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002)
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To The Future (2021)
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Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26 (1995)
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Haiku (2009)
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Untitled Naomi Kawase Film (—)
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Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
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echo (2023)
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Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)
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I Focus on That Which Interests Me (1988)
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