Naomi Kawase

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a ...

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

Toru revisits the astronomical observatory in his old school for the first time in 15 years. He finds a notebook in the room that remained ...

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

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 ...

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While ...

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. ...

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film ...

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.

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 impulse to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother’s suicide when she was young.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

A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other ...

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

The last piece of the trilogy, following ‘Katatsumori’ and ‘See Heaven’, filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and ...

The film takes shape through the form of a video exchange between Hirokazu Kore-eda and Naomi Kawase. Each films the world around them and ...

The sequel to Naomi Kawase’s Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her “grandma”, capturing their love and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

1991 short film

1989 short film

1988 film.