Acting credits
24
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Naomi Kawase
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 64Series: 3Crew credits: 54
TMDB ID: 20658
IMDb ID: nm0442905
Known for: Directing
Born: May 30, 1969
Age: 56
Place of birth: Nara, Japan
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1988 - 2025
Years active: 38
Average TMDB rating: 6.65
Wikidata: Q271247
Also known as
河瀨直美 • 仙頭直美 • Sentō Naomi • 가와세 나오미 • 센토 나오미 • Наоми Кавасэ • 河瀬直美 • かわせなおみ
Other jobs
Director (48)Executive Producer (2)Producer (2)Writer (2)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Naomi Kawase.
Emergency Exit
2025 Movie
6.0
Yakushima's Illusion
Director
2025 Movie
Echoes of Motherhood
2025 Movie
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
2025 Movie
8.0
Beyond the Fog
Producer
2023 Movie
1.0
echo
Director
2023 Movie
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B
Director
2022 Movie
6.0
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
Director
2022 Movie
Missing Pictures
as Self
2021 Movie
6.8
Tracing Her Shadow
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
7.3
True Mothers
Director
2020 Movie
7.7
It Stopped Raining
as Koyomi's Mother
2020 Movie
4.7
The Nikaidos' Fall
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
The Moon
Director
2018 Movie
4.8
Vision
Director
2018 Movie
Cinema Fighters
Director
2018 Movie
Parallel World
Director
2018 Movie
Where Does the Sand Go?
Director
2017 Movie
6.5
Radiance
Director
2017 Movie
6.5
Amami
as Self
2016 Movie
10.0
Lies
Director
2016 Movie
1.0
Seed
Director
2016 Movie
7.2
A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
2015 Movie
7.4
Sweet Bean
Director
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Naomi Kawase.
