Naomi Kawase

About Tadashi Yoshimura’s maternity clinic where he practice “natural births” deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan). Release: ...

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko ...

A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand. Release: Nanayo (2008) General: avi | 1.08 GB | 01:29:32 Video: ...

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to ...

Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a ...

The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii. Release: Tsuioku no dansu ...

The exhibition ‘The Complete Letters’ features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental ...

A woman is torn between two men and two ways of life in this drama from writer and director Naomi Kawase. Kayoko (Hako Oshima) lives a serene ...

Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, ...

Release: Hi wa Katabuki AKA Sun on the Horizon 1996 General: avi | 650 MB | 00:47:18 Video: 1721 Kbps | 608×464 (4:3) | 29.970 fps | XVID ...

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother’s suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship ...

Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals ...

A diary film depicting Kawase’s relationship with her Grandma. Release: Katatsumori 1994 General: avi | 500 MB | 00:39:19 Video: 1579 Kbps ...

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 ...

A diary film about Kawase’s relationship with her Grandma and the search for her Father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced ...

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew ...

Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on ...

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world. ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to ...

In the follow-up to Embracing (1992), Naomi Kawase learns of her father’s death and struggles with her loneliness and the feeling of having ...