Naomi Kawase Movies

1988 film.

This experimental documentary follows director Kawase as she walks through Shibuya in the winter of 1995 with a camera, attempting to interact with...

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...

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

Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the Camera Mainichi magazine, rushing through his time...

It’s about “human evaporation”, referring to the phenomena in Japan called Jouhatsu, in which people – up to 100,000 a year...

Taichi, a security worker, meets a girl, Heki, at a bar. The next evening, he sees the beautiful view of his town for the first time in ages, and...

1988 short film

1991 short film

1990 short film

1989 short film

Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.