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Naomi Kawase

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: Directing

Born: Nara, Japan, 1969-05-30

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1992	Embracing	Self	62
2	1994	Katatsumori	Self	73
3	1995	See Heaven	Self	50
4	1995	Memory of the Wind	Herself	30
5	1996	Sun on the Horizon		70
6	1998	Love & Pop	Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)	77
7	1999	Kaleidoscope	Self	50
8	2001	Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth	Self	60
9	2002	Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom	Self	57
10	2003	Shara	Reiko	64
11	2006	Birth/Mother	Self	63
12	2011	Destroy Vicious		0
13	2012	Trace	Self	65
14	2013	Shining Besides Funny Moon		0
15	2013	The Tale of Iya	Dr. Amamiya	69
16	2014	Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women	Self	65
17	2016	Amami	Self	65
18	2020	It Stopped Raining	Koyomi's Mother	75
19	2021	Missing Pictures	Self	0
20		Emergency Exit		0
21	2025	The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1998	Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai	Self	0
2	2021	What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now		0