Sweet Bean
2015
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Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美, Kawase Naomi) is a Japanese film director. She was also known as Naomi Sento (仙頭直美, Sentō Naomi), with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother who raised her.
Naomi Kawase was born on 30 May 1969 in Nara, Japan. She is a director and writer, known for Sweet Bean (2015), Still the Water (2014) and Suzaku (1997). She was previously married to Takenori Sentô.
Naomi Kawase (born May 30, 1969, Nara, Japan) Japanese film director who was the youngest person to win the Caméra d’Or (for best debut feature film) at the Cannes film festival, for Moe no suzaku (1997).
Jul 22, 2021 · Naomi Kawase is on her phone in the back of a taxi, squeezing in this interview on the way to another shoot. For a director known for her lyrical brand of filmmaking, she talks at a clip; time...
Dec 17, 2018 · Most viewers probably know Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase for her fiction films, including Suzaku (1997), for which she won Camera d’Or in Cannes, and The Mourning Forest (2007), which received the festival’s Grand Prix.
Sep 14, 2020 · Where to begin with Naomi Kawase. As her Cannes prize-winning drama The Mourning Forest arrives to stream on BFI Player, we pick a beginner’s path through the rhapsodic cinema of Naomi Kawase, Japan’s most famous female director.
Jun 22, 2020 · Naomi Kawase: the film-maker ready to shoot the Olympics. Japan’s most celebrated female director was due to document the Tokyo 2020 Games. Now she looks to 2021. Naomi Kawase, who has been...
