Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase
Other names	Naomi Sento
Occupation(s)	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 from the Osaka School of Photography (then the School of Visual Arts) in 1989, she spent an additional four years there as a lecturer before releasing Embracing. She became the youngest winner of la Caméra d'Or award (the award for the best new director) at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her first 35mm film Moe no Suzaku. She novelized her films Moe no Suzaku and Firefly.

Kawase has completed production on her fourth full-length film Mogari no Mori, which had its premiere in June, 2007 in her hometown Nara.

She won the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for Mogari no Mori.

Filmography

• 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 (Manguekyo) (1999, 81')
• The Weald 「杣人物語」(1997, 73')
• Moe No 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')

References

• Lopez, José Manuel, ed. (2008). El cine en el umbral. Madrid: T&B, 2008. ISBN 9788496576636
• Novielli, Roberta Maria, ed. (2002). Kawase Naomi: i film, il cinema. Cantalupa (To): Effatà, 2002. ISBN 8874020120

External links

• Official Homepage
• Kawase Naomi at IMDb
• Interview with Kawase Naomi - Documentary Box (Interviewer: Aaron Gerow)
• Interview with Naomi Kawase - Meniscus Magazine
• at Rotterdam Film Festival
• at Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Template:Es icon
• 河瀬直美 (Naomi Kawase) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
• Interview with Kawase Naomi - asianbeat.com