The best Naomi Kawase’s documentary movies
Today we present the best Naomi Kawase’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Naomi Kawase’s movies.
Katatsumori
7.2/10
A diary film depicting Kawase's relationship with her Grandma.
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
7.5/10
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 peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Embracing
7/10
A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her Grandma and the search for her Father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her early childhood.
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
7.1/10
In the follow-up to Embracing (1992), Naomi Kawase learns of her father's death and struggles with her loneliness and the feeling of having been abandoned by her parents.
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
6.9/10
Kazuo Nishii, renowned editor and photography critic, died in 2001 of stomach cancer. Two months earlier he contacted Naomi Kawase, whose works he admired, to document the remaining weeks of his life. Kawase visits him in the hospital and films the progression of his sickness and the conversations between the two.
