Throughout her career, filmmaker Naomi Kawase has seldom strayed far from the subject she knows best: herself. Her earliest films were intimate documentaries about her family, shot on 8mm film.

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New WJBL president Naomi Kawase (center) and other directors pose for photos during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. | KAZ NAGATSUKA By Kaz Nagatsuka Staff writer SHARE/SAVE Jun 22, 2021 ...

Naomi Kawase’s latest feature, Yakushima’s Illusion, starring Vicky Krieps, has been added to this year’s international ...

Naomi Kawase, Cannes Film Festival prizewinner and official film director for the Tokyo Games, poses for a photo on Feb. 4. (Photo by Maho Obata) ...

Japanese film director Naomi Kawase speaks about the official Tokyo Olympics film at a press conference on March 24, 2022, in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (AP) -- The documentary film about the ...

Kawase Naomi is one of the best-known Japanese film directors at work today. Her latest movie Hikari (Radiance), recipient of the 2017 Ecumenical Jury award at the 2017 Festival de Cannes, was ...

Japanese director Naomi Kawase on Tuesday unveiled her Cannes contender "Still the Water", a lyrical look at love, death and sex that she has called her "masterpiece" worthy of the ...

OSAKA -- NHK Osaka Broadcasting Station apologized on Jan. 9 after airing a documentary about film director Naomi Kawase's coverage of the Tokyo Olympics without thoroughly checking facts ...

The first mystery by Cannes regular Naomi Kawase, a re-edited TV drama series by Koji Fukada and Studio Ghibli Inc.'s adaptation of "Earwig and the Witch" have been named to the Cannes Film ...

The Olympic rings monument in Tokyo in June 2021 (Asahi Shimbun file photo) I watched the official film of the Tokyo Olympics, directed by Naomi Kawase, on DVD. It has an unusual two-segment format.