Where to watch Naomi Kawase in the UK
Find every Naomi Kawase film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 4 May 2026.
Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi, born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director. She graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. 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. Aside from being a filmmaker, she is the founder and Executive Director for the Nara International Film Festival.
Naomi Kawase films streaming in the UK
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- Homemade (2020) Director
- Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai (1998) as Self
- Sweet Bean (2015) Director
- Love & Pop (1998) as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- True Mothers (2020) Director
- Radiance (2017) Director
- The Mourning Forest (2007) Director
- Suzaku (1997) Director
- Vision (2018) Director
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011) Director
- Cinema Fighters (2018) Director
- Still the Water (2014) Director
- Nanayo (2008) Director
- Emergency Exit (2025) Cast
- Shining Besides Funny Moon (2013) Cast
- It Stopped Raining (2020) as Koyomi's Mother
- Yakushima's Illusion (2025) Director
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011) Director
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014) as Self
- Destroy Vicious (2011) Cast
- A Midsummer's Fantasia (2015) Producer
- The Nikaidos' Fall (2019) Executive Producer
- Shara (2003) Writer
- Tracing Her Shadow (2021) Executive Producer
- The Tale of Iya (2013) as Dr. Amamiya
- What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now (2021) Cast
- Hanezu (2012) Director
- Parallel World (2018) Director
- Firefly (2001) Director
- Kaleidoscope (1999) Director
- The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard (2026) Cast
- Where Does the Sand Go? (2017) Director
- Beyond the Fog (2023) Producer
- Koma (2009) Director
- Seed (2016) Director
- Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001) Director
- The Moon (2018) Director
- Embracing (1992) Director
- This World (A Correspondence Between Naomi Kawase and Hirokazu Koreeda) (1996) Director
- Katatsumori (1994) Director
- Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (2002) Director
- The Girls' Daily Bread (1990) Director
- Genpin (2010) Director
- Trace (2012) Director
- The Weald (1998) Director
- Amami (2016) Director
- Birth/Mother (2006) Director
- Untitled Naomi Kawase Film Director
- Echoes of Motherhood (2025) Cast
- Inori (2012) Producer
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (2022) Director
- White Moon (1993) Director
- See Heaven (1995) Director
- Papa's Ice Cream (1988) Director
- Women Make Films (2004) as Self
- Hikaru Utada: Sakura Nagashi (2012) Director
- A Small Largeness (1989) Director
- My Sole Family (1989) Director
- Presently, (1989) Director
- echo (2023) Director
- Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (2009) Cinematography
- Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022) Director
- The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me (1988) Director
- Sun on the Horizon (1996) Writer
- Lies (2016) Director
- Like Happiness (1991) Director
- I Focus on That Which Interests Me (1988) Director
- To The Future (2021) Director
- Haiku (2009) Director
- My J-W-F (1988) Director
- Rien ne s'efface (2008) as elle-même
- Memory of the Wind (1995) Director
- Kaze no kioku: Shibuya ni te 1995.12.26 (1995) Director
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What are Naomi Kawase's most popular films?
Most-watched Naomi Kawase films currently: Sweet Bean (2015), Love & Pop (1998), True Mothers (2020), Radiance (2017), The Mourning Forest (2007).
What TV shows has Naomi Kawase appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Homemade (2020), Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai (1998), What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now (2021).
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