Naomi Kawase

DirectorWriterActorProducerCinematographer 1988–2025 (37 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Highest Rated

Lies

2016 · Director

10.0

Yakushima's Illusion

2025 · Director

8.0

Yakushima's Illusion

2025 · Writer

8.0

Known For

Film

Sweet Bean

Director

Film

Love & Pop

Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

Film

True Mothers

Director

Film

Still the Water

Director

Film

Radiance

Screenplay

Film

Suzaku

Director

Film

The Mourning Forest

Director

Film

Shara

Reiko

Filmography

Acting (26)

Movies (24)

Echoes of Motherhood

2025

The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard

2025

Emergency Exit

2025

Missing Pictures

2021

as Self

It Stopped Raining

as Koyomi's Mother

Amami

as Self

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

2014

as Self

6.5

Shining Besides Funny Moon

The Tale of Iya

as Dr. Amamiya

Trace

as Self

Destroy Vicious

Rien ne s'efface

as elle-même

Birth/Mother

as Self

Women Make Films

as Self

Shara

2003

as Reiko

6.4

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

2002

as Self

5.7

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

as Self

Kaleidoscope

as Self

Love & Pop

as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

Sun on the Horizon

See Heaven

as Self

Memory of the Wind

as Herself

Katatsumori

as Self

Embracing

as Self

Television (2)

What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now

2021

Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

1998

as Self

Crew (78)

Movies (77)

Yakushima's Illusion

Director

Yakushima's Illusion

Writer

echo

Director

Beyond the Fog

Producer

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

2022

Director

6.0

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

2022

Director

6.0

To The Future

2021

Director

Tracing Her Shadow

Executive Producer

True Mothers

Director

True Mothers

Director of Photography

True Mothers

Screenplay

The Nikaidos' Fall

Executive Producer

Vision

Director

Vision

Producer

Vision

Writer

Parallel World

Director

Cinema Fighters

2018

Director

Cinema Fighters

2018

Writer

The Moon

2018

Director

Where Does the Sand Go?

2017

Director

Radiance

Screenplay

Seed

Director

Amami

Director

Lies

Director

Sweet Bean

Director

A Midsummer's Fantasia

Producer

Still the Water

Director

Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi

Director

Hanezu

Director

Inori

Producer

Trace

Director

Trace

Director of Photography

Trace

Editor

Trace

Writer

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

2011

Director

6.5

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Director

Genpin

Director

Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase

Cinematography

Visitors

Director

Haiku

Director

Koma

Director

Nanayo

Director

The Mourning Forest

Director

The Mourning Forest

Producer

The Mourning Forest

Screenplay

Birth/Mother

Director

Shara

Writer

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

2002

Director

5.7

Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

2001

Director

6.0

Firefly

2001

Director

Firefly

2001

Editor

Firefly

2001

Music

Firefly

2001

Writer

Kaleidoscope

Director

The Weald

Director

Suzaku

Director

This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda)

Director

Sun on the Horizon

Writer

See Heaven

Director

Memory of the Wind

Director

Katatsumori

Director

Katatsumori

Director of Photography

Katatsumori

Editor

Katatsumori

Producer

Katatsumori

Writer

White Moon

Director

Embracing

1992

Director

6.2

Like Happiness

1991

Director

The Girls' Daily Bread

1990

Director

My Sole Family

1989

Director

Presently,

1989

Director

A Small Largeness

1989

Director

My J-W-F

1988

Director

Papa's Ice Cream

1988

Director

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me

1988

Director

I Focus on That Which Interests Me

1988

Director

Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

Director

Television (1)

Homemade

2020

Director

5.5