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Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美, Kawase Naomi) is a Japanese film director. She was also known as Naomi Sento (仙頭直美, Sentō Naomi), with her former 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.
Naomi Kawase was born on 30 May 1969 in Nara, Japan. She is a director and writer, known for Sweet Bean (2015), Still the Water (2014) and Suzaku (1997). She was previously married to Takenori Sentô.
May 26, 2024 · Naomi Kawase (born May 30, 1969, Nara, Japan) is a Japanese film director who was the youngest person to win the Caméra d’Or (for best debut feature film) at the Cannes film festival, for Moe no suzaku (1997).
Sep 14, 2020 · Where to begin with Naomi Kawase. As her Cannes prize-winning drama The Mourning Forest arrives to stream on BFI Player, we pick a beginner’s path through the rhapsodic cinema of Naomi Kawase, Japan’s most famous female director.
Mar 3, 2023 · Unveiled at Cannes nine years ago but not released theatrically until now, writer/director Naomi Kawase's drama "Still the Water" is a coming-of-age story that sets its main characters, two ordinary teenagers, against a series of epic backdrops.
Naomi KAWASE. Filmmaker based in Nara, Japan. Born and raised in Nara, KAWASE graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Her films, ‘Embracing’ and ‘KATATSUMORI’ received international recognitions and awards at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 1995.
Jul 22, 2021 · Naomi Kawase is on her phone in the back of a taxi, squeezing in this interview on the way to another shoot. For a director known for her lyrical brand of filmmaking, she talks at a clip; time is...
