Naomi Kawase

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Kawase Naomi (河瀬直美) (born May 30, 1969 in Nara, Japan) is a Japanese film director. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father her abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother her raised her.

Graduated from the Osaka School of Photography (then the School of Visual Arts) in 1989, spent an additional four years there as a lecturer before releasing Embracing. Novelized her film Moe no suzaku and is currently novelizing Firefly.

[edit] Filmography

1. Sharasojyu (2003)
2. Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2003)
3. Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001)
4. Firefly (2000)
5. Moe no suzaku (1997)
6. This World (1997)
7. Katatsumori (1994)
8. Embracing (1992)

[edit] External links

• Official Homepage (Japanese)
• Kawase Naomi at the Internet Movie Database  Japan
• Kawase Naomi's JMDb Listing (Japanese)
• at Rotterdam Film Festival
• at Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival of Navarra (Spanish)