Naomi Kawase

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Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi?, born May 30, 1969 in Nara, Japan) is a Japanese film director. She was also known as Naomi Sento (仙頭直美 Sentō Naomi?) with her then-husband's surname. 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.

After graduating from the Osaka School of Photography (then the School of Visual Arts) in 1989, she spent an additional four years there as a lecturer before releasing Embracing. She became the youngest winner of la Caméra d'Or award (the award for the best new director) at Cannes Film Festival in 1997 for her first 35mm film Moe no Suzaku. She novelized her films Moe no Suzaku and Firefly.

Kawase has completed production on her fourth full-length film Mogari no Mori, which had its premiere in June, 2007 in her hometown Nara.

She won the Grand Prix of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for Mogari no Mori.

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  1. Mogari no Mori (aka The Mourning Forest) 「殯の森」(2007)
  2. 沙羅双樹 (Sharasōju?) (2003)
  3. Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2003)
  4. Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth 「きゃからばあ」(2001)
  5. Firefly 「火垂」(2000)
  6. The Weald 「杣人物語」(1998)
  7. Moe no Suzaku 「萌の朱雀」(1997)
  8. Katatsumori 「かたつもり」(1994)
  9. Embracing 「につつまれて」(1992)

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