Tag Archives: Naomi Kawase

The last piece of the trilogy, following ‘Katatsumori’ and ‘See Heaven’, filming her grandma and herself. Read More »

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso’s twin boys suddenly disappears. Read More »

The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend Read More »

At a firm specializing in creating audio descriptions for films to serve the visually impaired Read More »

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. Read More »

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A Japanese-Korean man (Kitamura Kizuki) travels to a village in Nara to fulfill his late grandfather’s final wish. Read More »

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country Read More »

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Read More »

A diary film about Kawase’s relationship with her Grandma and the search for her Father Read More »

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.
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A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
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