Naomi Kawase
| Naomi Kawase |
Naomi Kawase at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2010 |
| Born |
30 May 1969(1969-05-30)
Nara, Japan |
| Other names |
Naomi Sento |
| Occupation |
Film director, screenwriter, editor |
| Years active |
1992–present |
| Spouse |
Takenori Sento (October 1997 – March 2000) (divorced) |
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 in 1989 from the Osaka School of Photography (Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō) (now Visual Arts College Osaka), where she was a student of Shunji Dodo,[1][2] she spent an additional four years there as a lecturer before releasing Embracing. She became the youngest winner of the la Caméra d'Or award (best new director) at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her first 35mm film, Suzaku. She novelized her films Suzaku and Firefly.
Kawase completed production on her fourth full-length film Mogari no Mori, which had its première in June 2007 in her hometown Nara.
She won the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for Mogari no Mori.[3] Her latest film Hanezu premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5]
Filmography[6]
- Hanezu (2011)
- Visitors (2009) (segment "Koma")
- In Between Days (2009)
- Nanayomachi 「七夜待」(2008, )
- The Mourning Forest (Mogari No Mori) (2007, 97′)
- Tarachime (2006, 43′)
- Kage (Shadow) (2006, 26′)
- Shara (Sharasōju) (2003, 100′)
- Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (Tsuioku no dansu) (2003, 65′)
- Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (きゃからばあ) (2001, 55′)
- Firefly (Hotaru) (2000, 164′)
- Kaleidoscope (Mangekyō) (1999, 81′)
- The Weald (杣人物語; 1997, 73′)
- Suzaku (萌の朱雀; 1997, 95′)
- Hi wa katabuki (1996, 45′)
- This World (1996, 8′)
- Memory of the Wind (1995, 30′)
- See Heaven (Ten, mitake) (1995, 10′)
- Katatsumori (かたつもり; 1994, 40′)
- White Moon (1993, 55′)
- Embracing (につつまれて; 1992, 40′)
- Like Happiness (1991, 20′)
- The Girl's Daily Bread (1990, 10′)
- A Small Largeness (1989, 10′)
- Presently (1989, 5′)
- My Solo Family (1989, 10′)
- Papa's Icecream (1988, 5′)
- My J-W-F (1988, 10′)
- The concretization of these things flying around me (1988, 5′)
- I focus on that which interests me (1988, 5′)
Notes
- ^ "Haha" (PDF), Catalog, Match & Co, http://www.matchandcompany.com/bookshopm/pdf/bookshop_m_catalog.pdf, retrieved 2010-08-24 .
- ^ continuity voice (21 May 2010) (in Japanese), Transcription, MBS, http://www.mbs.jp/voice/special/201005/21_29164.shtml, retrieved 2010-08-25 .
- ^ "The Mourning Forest". Festival de Cannes. France. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4434919/year/2007.html. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
- ^ "Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. France. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/58041.html. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
- ^ "Cannes film festival 2011: The full lineup". The Guardian. UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/14/cannes-film-festival-2011-full-lineup. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
- ^ Works, KAWASE Naomi, http://www.kawasenaomi.com/en/works/ .
References
- Lopez, José Manuel, ed. (2008) (in Spanish), El cine en el umbral, Madrid: T&B, ISBN 9788496576636 .
- Novielli, Roberta Maria, ed. (2002) (in Spanish), Kawase Naomi: i film, il cinema, Cantalupa, TO: Effatà, ISBN 8874020120 .
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1969-05-30 |
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Nara, Japan |
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