Naomi Kawase

A caregiver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they ...

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

A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.

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 ...

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother’s suicide when she was young.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

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 ...

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 ...

A diary film depicting Kawase’s relationship with her Grandma.

Short doc by Naomi Kawase. Follow-up to ‘Katasumori’

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

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

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

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

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

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