Kumie

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child....

Release : 2020.10.23
Popularity : 9.734

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

Release : 2017.05.27
Popularity : 5.874

A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in...

Release : 2007.05.29
Popularity : 8.855

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito...

Release : 2014.06.01
Popularity : 8.694

Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg.

Release : 2008.11.01
Popularity : 4.136

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

Release : 2018.06.08
Popularity : 4.521

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.

Release : 1994.05.22
Popularity : 1.612

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Release : 2011.11.04
Popularity : 3.676

Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.

Release : 2001.08.09
Popularity : 2.451

Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and...

Release : 2006.08.10
Popularity : 2.728

The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the...

Release : 1996.01.01
Popularity : 2.451

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi...

Release : 2012.02.01
Popularity : 1.542

The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing their love and attachment...

Release : 1995.06.06
Popularity : 1.109

Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a child. The film teems with memories, but it is the...

Release : 2012.10.30
Popularity : 2.156

A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her...

Release : 1992.01.01
Popularity : 1.202

About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).

Release : 2010.11.06
Popularity : 0.747

Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.

Release : 1998.04.25
Popularity : 0.954