Naomi Kawase Movies
- 2015
Sweet Bean
Sweet Bean7.4352015HD
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret....
- 2020
True Mothers
True Mothers7.2842020HD
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child....
- 2017
Radiance
Radiance6.5312017HD
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
- 1998
Love & Pop
Love & Pop7.71998HD
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....
- 2007
The Mourning Forest
The Mourning Forest6.82007HD
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in...
- 2014
Still the Water
Still the Water6.8572014HD
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito...
- 1997
Suzaku
Suzaku71997HD
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke...
- 2008
Nanayo
Nanayo72008HD
Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg.
- 2014
A Midsummer's Fantasia
A Midsummer's Fantasia6.92014HD
Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.
- 2018
Vision
Vision5.0172018HD
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
- 2013
The Tale of Iya
The Tale of Iya6.8962013HD
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...
- 2020
It Stopped Raining
It Stopped Raining7.92020HD
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,...
- 2003
Shara
Shara6.2792003HD
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,...
- 1994
Katatsumori
Katatsumori7.21994HD
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
- 2011
3.11 A Sense of Home
3.11 A Sense of Home6.52011HD
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
- 2021
Tracing Her Shadow
Tracing Her Shadow6.82021HD
An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese...
- 1999
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope51999HD
Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono...
- 2001
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth62001HD
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
- 2006
Birth/Mother
Birth/Mother6.32006HD
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and...
- 2011
Destroy Vicious
Destroy Vicious02011HD