Naomi Kawase Filmes

  • 2021
    Tracing Her Shadow

    Tracing Her Shadow

    Tracing Her Shadow

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    An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese...

    Tracing Her Shadow
  • 2023
    Beyond the Fog

    Beyond the Fog

    Beyond the Fog

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    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...

    Beyond the Fog
  • 2023
    echo

    echo

    echo

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    From the music of Tunisian composer Amine Bouhafa, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase crafts a story of two young people ruminating on existence and...

    echo
  • 2017
    Where Does the Sand Go?

    Where Does the Sand Go?

    Where Does the Sand Go?

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    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,...

    Where Does the Sand Go?
  • 2001
    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

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    Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.

    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
  • 2018
    The Moon

    The Moon

    The Moon

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    In the form of a fiction, Naomi Kawase delivers a self-portrait which is also a re-crossing of her earlier films. The old city of Nara, the first...

    The Moon
  • 2014
    Still the Water

    Still the Water

    Still the Water

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    On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito...

    Still the Water
  • 2012
    Inori

    Inori

    Inori

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    Director Pedro came to Japan in April 2011, started shooting in the village Totsukawa of Nara Prefecture. He, as Himotoku, began to spin the story...

    Inori
  • 2009
    Koma

    Koma

    Koma

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    Kawase explores the fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation...

    Koma
  • 1999
    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

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    A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the...

    Kaleidoscope
  • 1970
    Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

    Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

    Untitled Naomi Kawase Film

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    It’s about “human evaporation”, referring to the phenomena in Japan called Jouhatsu, in which people – up to 100,000 a year...

    Untitled Naomi Kawase Film
  • 2022
    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

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    Follows Japanese director Naomi Kawase as she directs the official film of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, giving a message that goes beyond the...

    Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A
  • 2018
    Cinema Fighters

    Cinema Fighters

    Cinema Fighters

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    Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.

    Cinema Fighters
  • 1994
    Katatsumori

    Katatsumori

    Katatsumori

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    Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.

    Katatsumori
  • 1995
    Memory of the Wind

    Memory of the Wind

    Memory of the Wind

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    Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life and filmmaking and discovering her...

    Memory of the Wind
  • 2016
    Lies

    Lies

    Lies

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    This is the story about the life and artistic views of a designer through an interview that’s replete with poetic dialogue.

    Lies
  • 1998
    The Weald

    The Weald

    The Weald

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    Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.

    The Weald
  • 1988
    My J-W-F

    My J-W-F

    My J-W-F

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    1988 short film

    My J-W-F
  • 2016
    Amami

    Amami

    Amami

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    Naomi Kawase goes to the south of Japan in search of her family origins on Amami Island, with her four-year-old son Mitsuki. They meet parents, chat...

    Amami
  • 2016
    Seed

    Seed

    Seed

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    Naomi Kawase describes Sakura Ando, the lead character in her film, as "a mysterious creature" who is "like a fairy. SEED is the story of the journey...

    Seed