Sweet Bean
2015- Nominee
Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) · Opening Film, Official Selection (2015) · Nominee
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Naomi Kawase
河瀨直美
1969 – Present
Biography
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.
Selected Filmography
Selected Recognition
- Winner
Cannes Film Festival · Grand Prix (2007) · Winner
- First
The only Japanese film to win an award at Cannes that year — Kawase's second major Cannes prize after her 1997 Camera d'Or, ten years apart
Shara
2003- Winner
Locarno Film Festival · FIPRESCI Prize (2003) · Winner
Suzaku
1997- Winner
Cannes Film Festival · Camera dOr (1997) · Winner
- Winner
Rotterdam International Film Festival · FIPRESCI Prize (1997) · Winner
- First
First Japanese director to win the Camera d'Or — and, at 27, the youngest winner in its history
