Naomi Kawase Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Naomi Kawase Trailers
Total trailers found: 70
03 September 2009
Kawase's entry in the Haiku project
10 May 1988
1988 short film
26 January 2018
Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.
09 August 2001
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
19 December 2025
It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness.
06 June 1995
The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katatsumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing their love and attachment towards each other.
01 November 1997
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru.
01 November 2008
Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg.
27 May 2017
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
24 March 2001
Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she was young.
01 January 1988
Kawase's debut film, shot after a fateful encounter with an 8mm film camera. The sturdy frame honestly reflects what the photographer sees and feels.
01 February 2012
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature.
10 August 2006
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and death, presents the bond of life through her own childbirth experience.
10 January 1998
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates.
30 May 2015
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over.
01 January 1999
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside.
30 June 2017
A film-within-a-film from Kawase's "Radiance" (2017). The film depicts a man who is obsessed with the woman of his destiny and clings to the past, and his wife who suffers from dementia.
28 June 2016
This is the story about the life and artistic views of a designer through an interview that’s replete with poetic dialogue.
04 August 2012
Director Pedro came to Japan in April 2011, started shooting in the village Totsukawa of Nara Prefecture.
23 October 2020
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child.
08 April 2021
Through this short film directed by Naomi Kawase you will witness the expressiveness of students and interviews with educators from Waldorf school’s throughout Japan.
17 February 2016
Naomi Kawase describes Sakura Ando, the lead character in her film, as "a mysterious creature" who is "like a fairy.
07 September 2013
A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.
19 March 2021
An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
08 June 2018
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
07 November 2025
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo.
17 November 2012
The song "Sakura Nagashi" by Hikaru Utada, reflects on themes of love, loss, and the beauty of fleeting moments.
29 May 2007
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
24 June 2022
From a vast record of 750 days, 5000 hours, Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 SIDE A and SIDE B are the official documentaries by Naomi Kawase capturing not only the athletes gathered from all over the world, but also their families, people involved in the Games, volunteers, medical personnel, and protesters shouting for the cancellation of the Olympics.
07 February 2020
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys.
22 September 2023
A quiet hamlet hidden in the remote mountains village of Japan. In this hamlet once lively with hikers and shops, we meet Ihika, a 12-year-old born into a family that has run an inn for generations.
25 January 2019
After losing his son, Tatsuya is anguished by the danger of his ancient family line coming to an end.
01 June 2014
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world.
22 October 2013
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.
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
29 October 2025
The love and conflicts between mother and daughter, and between husband and wife. The final chapter of Nakagawa Ryutaro's trilogy, depicting the forms of love that endure through loss and rebirth.
04 January 1990
1990 short film
14 September 1988
1988 film.
11 September 2011
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
12 July 2003
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears.
01 January 1996
The film takes shape through the form of a video exchange between Hirokazu Kore-eda and Naomi Kawase. Each films the world around them and intimately reflects on their individual struggles with making films. Kore-eda self-consciously reflects on his process, “What does a camera shoot?
15 May 2026
Under the vast, open sky of Uda City in Nara, three young strangers meet by chance - Sae, who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend who moved with her, Akari, who has come to find the infamous flamingos her best friend Kyon-chan once spoke of, and Ryutaro, who has never once left his hometown and spends his days living in tedium.
09 March 1989
1989 short film
04 December 1993
Taichi, a security worker, meets a girl, Heki, at a bar. The next evening, he sees the beautiful view of his town for the first time in ages, and decides to take the long way home, where he runs into Heki again.
13 December 2018
In the form of a fiction, Naomi Kawase delivers a self-portrait which is also a re-crossing of her earlier films.
02 February 1989
1989 short film
31 December 1995
Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life and filmmaking and discovering her abilities as a filmmaker.
24 February 1989
1989 short film.
02 February 1991
1991 short film
26 January 2018
Toru revisits the astronomical observatory in his old school for the first time in 15 years. He finds a notebook in the room that remained unchanged and frozen in time.
11 June 2015
Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.
16 April 2009
The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors.
06 November 2010
About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
15 September 2023
From the music of Tunisian composer Amine Bouhafa, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase crafts a story of two young people ruminating on existence and life in a city.
12 November 2009
Kawase explores the fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation Korean-Japanese man, who unexpectedly visits the small and quiet village of Koma, and a Japanese woman, a somewhat mysterious inhabitant of the village.
01 January 1996
The last piece of Naomi Kawase's Grandmother Trilogy, following Katatsumori (1994) and See Heaven (1995), filming her grandma and herself.
10 August 2014
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
16 April 2026
When a girl raised by wolves is found in the woods, she must learn to forge her own path as those around her try to exploit her for their own purposes.
