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1. Bokura no jidai (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Shun Oguri, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sawako Agawa
Votes: 25
2. Chandra (2015)
15 min | Short, Drama
Seven-year-old Chandra and his elderly grandfather have to travel on foot through earthquake-hit Kathmandu in order to get to hospital, where Chandra's mother has just given birth. Chandra ... See full summary »
Directors: Fateme Ahmadi, Asmita Shrish | Stars: Arun Rai, Bir Bahadur Rai
Votes: 13
3. Genpin (2010)
92 min | Documentary
About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
Director: Naomi Kawase | Star: Tadashi Yoshimura
Votes: 401
4. Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
145 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held ... See full summary »
Director: Ally Acker | Stars: Jodie Foster, Dede Allen, Gillian Armstrong, Margaret Booth
Votes: 22
5. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,742 | Gross: $0.12M
6. Love & Pop (1998)
110 min | Drama
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida
Votes: 1,878
7. Suzaku (1997)
95 min | Drama
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata
Votes: 1,485
8. Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang (2021)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Hardwicke revisits this personal project too reluctant to support. She highlights the challenge women have faced as filmmakers in Hollywood and the challenges while outlining what her dream film would have looked like.
Directors: Clément Deneux, Kuan-Yuan Lai | Stars: Abel Ferrara, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, Tsai Ming-liang
Votes: 7
9. Katatsumori (1994)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 219
10. Sharasôju (2003)
100 min | Drama
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, the remaining twin, is an art student. ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kohei Fukungaga, Yuka Hyyoudo, Naomi Kawase, Katsuhisa Namase
Votes: 1,817
11. Birth/Mother (2006)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals Kawase's impatience when coming to terms with her foster... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Uno Kawase, Naomi Kawase, Mitsuki Kawase
Votes: 156
12. Kya ka ra ba a (2001)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 127
13. Takayuki Yamada's Cannes Film Festival (2017)
Documentary, Comedy
Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Mana Ashida, Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 43
14.
Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
Episode:
TV Festival Du Cannes 2011
(2011)
News
The Cannes International Film Festival (French: Festival du Cannes), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from ... See full summary »
Stars: Woody Allen, Didier Allouch, Pedro Almodóvar, Elena Anaya
Votes: 28
15. True Mothers (2020)
140 min | Drama
A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Hiromi Nagasaku, Arata Iura, Aju Makita, Reo Sato
Votes: 1,980
16. The Tale of Iya (2013)
169 min | Drama
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 humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.
Director: Tetsuichirô Tsuta | Stars: Rina Takeda, Shima Ônishi, Min Tanaka, Hitoshi Murakami
Votes: 373
17. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
18. Hotaru (2000)
164 min | Drama
A stripper, referred to as a fire fly be a use of her attractive beauty, falls in love. She finds inner piece as love is what her life was missing.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Yûko Nakamura, Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami
Votes: 116
19. Ni tsutsumarete (1992)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 238
20. Jônetsu tairiku (1998– )
30 min | Documentary
Stars: Hitoshi Kubota, Kenta Maeda, Ryôta Murata, Yûji Tanaka
Votes: 21
21. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 119
22. Tsuioku no dansu (2002)
65 min | Documentary, Biography
The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kazuo Nishii, Naomi Kawase, Chizuko Nishii
Votes: 96
23. Inori (2012)
72 min | Documentary
Inori is a great Japanese / spiritual / scientific documentary. Uncovering deep Human Being truths. A must watch
Director: Pedro González-Rubio
Votes: 110
24. Tracing Her Shadow (2020)
97 min | Drama
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China. With the normalization of diplomatic ... See full summary »
Director: Peng Fei Song | Stars: Yanshu Wu, Ze Ying, Jun Kunimura, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 155
25. Still the Water (2014)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Nijirô Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto
Votes: 3,074
26. The Mourning Forest (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A care-giver 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 embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda, Yôichirô Saitô
Votes: 2,899
27. Nanayomachi (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakami, Anthony Donelly
Votes: 657
28. Sun on the Horizon (1996)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 54
29. Sinergias: Diálogos entre Naomi Kawase y Isaki Lacuesta (2009 Video)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Directors: Naomi Kawase, Isaki Lacuesta | Stars: Isa Campo, Mitsuki Kawase, Naomi Kawase, Isaki Lacuesta
Votes: 24
30. Hanezu (2011)
91 min | Drama
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Tôta Komizu, Hako Ohshima, Durian Sukegawa, Akaji Maro
Votes: 1,003
31. A Midsummer's Fantasia (2014)
96 min | Drama
A Korean director visits a small village in Japan to find inspiration for his film.
Director: Jang Kun-jae | Stars: Kim Sae-byeok, Hyeong-gook Im, Ryô Iwase
Votes: 229
32. Chiri (2012)
45 min | Documentary
Naomi Kawase was born into a world where her parents, and most family, were absent. Chiri is the close observation of the end of the life of her foster mother, after she had turned 95. ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Uno Kawase, Naomi Kawase, Mitsuki Kawase
Votes: 49
33. The Weald (1997)
73 min | Documentary
The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masayuki Hatakeyama, Hirotsugu Inji, Hidemitsu Ishiyama, Masaharu Izumi
Votes: 36
34. Endless Cinema (2019)
73 min | Documentary
Endless Cinema is an insight vision about the present and the future of cinema, to think about its current situation and the changes that is confronting. Nine well known cinema masters face those questions to better understanding.
Director: Lucía Tello Díaz | Stars: Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Isabel Coixet, Deepa Mehta
Votes: 5
35. Radiance (II) (2017)
101 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Shirakawa
Votes: 2,000
36. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 229
37. Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022)
119 min | Documentary, Sport
Follows Japanese director Naomi Kawase as she directs the official film of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, giving a message that goes beyond the physical exploit to mark souls, with her style and all her subtlety.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Votes: 17
38. Visitors (2009)
108 min | Drama
Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.
Directors: Lav Diaz, Naomi Kawase, Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kazuki Kitamura, Yûko Nakamura, Dante Perez, Lee Sun-Kyun
Votes: 232
39. Lies (II) (2015)
22 min | Short, Drama
A Taiwanese fashion editor who was raised in the United States is now based out of Singapore. She has founded and edits a fashion magazine read by thousands across Asia. Now in Japan she ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Tetsuya Bessho, Ruth Yoshie Linton, Ai Ozaki
Votes: 15
40. Homemade (I) (2020– )
TV-MA | 138 min | Drama
Confined at home as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal, moving stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine.
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Cate Blanchett, Peter Sarsgaard, Christopher Abbott
Votes: 896
41. Shizukana ame (2019)
99 min | Drama
Yukisuke, a young man with a bad leg that forces him to limp constantly, strikes a romance with Koyomi, a young woman who runs a Taiyaki stall. Then she is hit by a car and lose her memory after she awakes from a coma.
Director: Ryûtarô Nakagawa | Stars: Ryôta Bandô, Denden, Misa Etô, Kanji Furutachi
Votes: 133
42. Ten, mitake (1995)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Impressions of the director's mother waving, burning trash, slideshow of mom gardening, slow motion of mom pointing skyward until Naomi jumps over her. No real time sound - but foley noises... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 99
43. The Nikaidos' Fall (2018)
106 min | Drama
Tatsuya Nikaido is a middle-aged divorcee who runs an agricultural company and lives in a suburb with his daughter and mother. After his only son's death, he has been pressured by his fate ... See full summary »
Director: Ida Panahandeh | Stars: Nelson Babin-Coy, Shizuka Ishibashi, Masaya Katô
Votes: 65
44. Mangekyô (1999)
90 min | Documentary
A photographer (Machiko Ono) and a filmmaker (Naomi Kawase) challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Shinya Arimoto, Naomi Kawase, Mika Mifune, Machiko Ono
Votes: 39
45. 3.11 Sense of Home (2011)
75 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
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.
Directors: Catherine Cadou, Shunji Dodo, Víctor Erice, Pedro González-Rubio, Zhangke Jia, Naomi Kawase, Leslie Kee, So Yong Kim, Isaki Lacuesta, Jonas Mekas, Kaori Momoi, Takushi Nishinaka, Wisut Ponnimit, Mohd Naguib Razak, Ariel Rotter, Steven Sebring, Patti Smith, Kazuhiro Sôda, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Toyoko Yamasaki, Ye Zhao | Stars: Ana Torrent, Kaori Momoi, Tao Zhao
Votes: 48
46. Shadow (2004)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Thirty-year-old Hako unexpectedly discovers she has a father that she never met, while he records the moment live on camera. Unexpected emotions, bitterness, and forgiveness rise to the surface in the unscripted scenes between them.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Hako Ohshima, Yutaka Yamazaki
Votes: 7
47. Kiri no fuchi (2023)
83 min | Drama
In a quiet hamlet once lively with hikers and lined with shops and inns, we meet Ihika (12) who is born into a family that has run an inn for generations. Saki, Ihika's mother who married ... See full summary »
Director: Murase Daichi | Stars: Shyuri Miyake, Masaki Miura, Shinzô Hotta, Asami Mizukawa
Votes: 9
48. Mighty Flash (2021)
98 min | Drama
How we cling to age old patriarchal traditions, though in a new globalized world, society needs to move on and invent new ways of thinking.
Director: Ainhoa Rodríguez | Stars: Isabel María Mendoza, Guadalupe Gutiérrez, Carmen Valverde, Isabel Valverde
Votes: 456
49. Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
123 min | Documentary, Sport
Follows Japanese director Naomi Kawase as she directs the official film of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, giving a message that goes beyond the physical exploit to mark souls, with her style and all her subtlety.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Votes: 13
50. Vision (I) (2018)
109 min | Drama
Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Masatoshi Nagase, Takanori Iwata, Minami
Votes: 856