Japanese film director. Born in Nara Prefecture, the ancient capital. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was brought up by her grandfather's sister. When she was a child, she followed the footsteps of the old man and traveled all over the mountains around Nara. For Naomi Kawase, these experiences are of decisive significance. Naomi Kawase likes basketball in high school. As the captain of the school team, she even led the basketball team to participate in the national league. 1989 graduated from the film department of osaka institute of photography. Later, she worked in a karaoke company in Osaka, but was called back by a junior college as an intern lecturer for four years. When I was at school, I just made an 8 mm film under the guidance of Gao Ling, and I created an 8 mm short film myself. I used pictures to edit what I was most interested in (1988), materialized what I thought was vivid (1988), and there was only one family (1989) and now (6544). She is mainly rooted in the land of Nara, her hometown, and is engaged in film creation. The short film won many awards.

1993 set up a "group painting" film production team and held independent screening and production workshops including their own works all over the country. Famous 8 mm films include Double Packaging (1992), Snail (1994), Memory of the Wind (1995), Naomi Kawase, Hirokazu Koreeda and Communication (1996). 1996 directed the first 35 mm long feature film "The Sprouting Suzaku", which tells the story of the disintegration of the Tahara family who worked in forestry in Nara County, his hometown, under the impact of Japan's rapid economic growth. Their family left the closed countryside one after another to make a living elsewhere. One day, Xiao San, who ran away from home, died and sent a video to her family. In the video, people in Tian Yuan's hometown saw the passing of the whole society 15 years. Here, she uses Suzaku, one of the four gods in the history of China, as a metaphor for the Tian Yuan family living in the countryside, and uses budding as a metaphor for irresistible social changes to arouse the audience's feelings about the historical process. The film won the director award of the Newcomer Award at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival. Kawase became the youngest director in Japanese film history to win an international film award. The film also won the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the Lotendamm Locarno International Film Festival. Only when the Japanese media was attracted by Shohei Imamura's second Palme d 'Or award and later Kitano Takeshi's Fireworks in Venice did Kawasawa not attract people's attention.

After filming Suzaku on 1997, Naomi Kawase became obsessed with Xiji Nomura, and she returned to the familiar and accustomed documentary shooting road (before or after), featuring nine old people in the village. She "unloaded" her directorship, talked to them like relatives, recalled the past and recorded the present-that was probably the silhouette of the last time of her life-and that was the documentary The Woodman's Story. In 2000, the work Firefly described the love story between a stripper and a ceramic craftsman, showing her sad and happy life. In 2003, the title of Naomi Kawase's "Two Trees in Shaluo" originated from Buddhist terminology, and Sakyamuni was nirvana among two trees in Naraichi. Therefore, the sand tree has become a sacred symbol of Buddhism, and it also represents the enlightenment and transcendental realm of life. Used in movies, one is because Nara has the first bronze Buddha in Japan, which is 14.98 meters high, and the other is the theme of the movie. In the Silent World is a documentary jointly produced by 200 1 and French TV station Arte. The works of TIDF International Documentary Biennale in Taiwan Province Province mainly tell about her trip to film festivals in various countries with Suzaku. In 2003, the documentary Letter from Sakura was written by Kazuo Nishii, a good friend of Naomi Kawase, who is a famous Japanese photographer and film critic. After learning that he had stomach cancer, he asked Kawasawa to record the whole process of his death with a camera. Kawase is not only a photographer with a machine behind the camera, but also keeps talking to Xijing to encourage him. Xijing will also take photos of Kawasawa at work with a camera, because he hopes that everyone can see this film except himself. Xijing died in 200 1 year1month at the age of 55. Through these images two years ago, the audience deeply remembered this young master while being infinitely sad.

In 2004, Shadow continued Kawasawa's consistent aesthetic style and his journey of constantly searching for his father. The magic of shadow is that the lens of Kawasaki's close gaze can be unnoticed without disturbing the dramatic emotional blending in front of the camera. At the beginning of 2006, Naomi Kawase's "New Life" was also a 32-minute DV documentary (translated from Hong Kong as "Mammy", which means "mother" in old Japanese), which recorded the experience of Naomi Kawase's grandmother and her baby son two years ago and some life clips afterwards. Compared with her other works, this one naturally belongs to a more private and revived one, and focuses on creating a dreamy and experimental feeling in color and photography. Among them, Kawase still brings us some family images full of warmth and happiness with the sensitive touch like a poet.

During this period, two retrospective exhibitions of Naomi Kawase's works were held in Alba and Paris in 2002. In 2005, a retrospective exhibition was held in Los Angeles. The fourth feature film "The Forest of Funeral" was shortlisted in the competition unit of Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and won the jury prize, among which the heroine Machiko Ono was the little girl in Suzaku ten years ago. At the same time, Naomi Kawase's next feature film plan will be "If only the world liked me" starring Kyoko Hasegawa. This film is adapted from a novel by writer Kyoko Inukai. The story is about an ordinary OL (Kyoko Hasegawa) who studied ancient massage in Thailand, and then got in touch with foreign cultures before he found his beloved. This will be a romantic comedy. This film will be filmed in Thailand in July this year, which will be the first time that Naomi Kawase has filmed overseas. It is expected to be completed in two weeks and released in 2007 at the earliest. 1997, Naomi Kawase married Takeshi Moritou, a Japanese independent producer of The Rosefinch in the Sprouting, which was later renamed Naomai Moritou. 200 1, they divorced. After the divorce, Naomi Kawase resumed her original surname. After marrying a TV producer in 2004, Naomi Kawase's first child was born. Naomi Kawase's talent is not limited to the film field. She also directs television advertising and writing. Her novels have been published, such as Suzaku and Firefly. She also publishes a free community newspaper in Nara. She always expresses her ideas through various channels.