Naomi Kawase Movies

  • 1998
    Love & Pop

    Love & Pop

    Love & Pop

    7.71998HD

    Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates....

    Love & Pop
  • 2003
    Shara

    Shara

    Shara

    6.32003HD

    The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, t...

    Shara
  • 2011
    Destroy Vicious

    Destroy Vicious

    Destroy Vicious

    02011HD

    Destroy Vicious
  • 2013
    Shining Besides Funny Moon

    Shining Besides Funny Moon

    Shining Besides Funny Moon

    02013HD

    A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.

    Shining Besides Funny Moon
  • 2001
    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

    Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth

    62001HD

    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
  • 1992
    Embracing

    Embracing

    Embracing

    6.21992HD

    A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her e...

    Embracing
  • 2002
    Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

    Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

    Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

    5.72002HD

    Kazuo Nishii, renowned editor and photography critic, died in 2001 of stomach cancer. Two months earlier he contacted Naomi Kawase, whose works he adm...

    Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
  • 2012
    Trace

    Trace

    Trace

    6.52012HD

    Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a child. The film teems with memories, but it is the...

    Trace
  • 1995
    See Heaven

    See Heaven

    See Heaven

    51995HD

    The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing their love and attachment towards each...

    See Heaven
  • 2013
    The Tale of Iya

    The Tale of Iya

    The Tale of Iya

    6.92013HD

    As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humbl...

    The Tale of Iya
  • 2021
    Missing Pictures

    Missing Pictures

    Missing Pictures

    02021HD

    For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures,...

    Missing Pictures
  • 2006
    Birth/Mother

    Birth/Mother

    Birth/Mother

    6.32006HD

    Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and d...

    Birth/Mother
  • 1995
    Memory of the Wind

    Memory of the Wind

    Memory of the Wind

    31995HD

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

    Memory of the Wind
  • 2020
    It Stopped Raining

    It Stopped Raining

    It Stopped Raining

    7.92020HD

    A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized,...

    It Stopped Raining
  • 1996
    Sun on the Horizon

    Sun on the Horizon

    Sun on the Horizon

    71996HD

    The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovab...

    Sun on the Horizon
  • 1994
    Katatsumori

    Katatsumori

    Katatsumori

    7.21994HD

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

    Katatsumori
  • 2014
    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    62014HD

    Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind th...

    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
  • 2024
    Amami

    Amami

    Amami

    02024HD

    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 w...

    Amami