1. Naomi Kawase was known as Naomi Sento, with her former husband's surname.
11 Facts About Naomi Kawase
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Naomi Kawase originally attended the Osaka School of Photography to study television production, but she became interested in film and decided to switch her focus.
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Naomi Kawase was a student of Shunji Dodo at the college.
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Naomi Kawase completed production on her fourth full-length film The Mourning Forest, which premiered in June 2007 in her hometown Nara and went on to win the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2013 Naomi Kawase was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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On October 23,2018, it was announced that Naomi Kawase had been selected by the IOC to shoot the official film for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Naomi Kawase denied both allegations and claimed the matters were handled internally.
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Naomi Kawase's style invokes the autobiographical practices related to documentary style.
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Naomi Kawase's subjects are primarily family and friends, and she frequently depicts the relationships between the filmmaker and the subject, and is self-reflexive of her own thoughts and emotions in her works.
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Naomi Kawase became the youngest winner of the la Camera d'Or award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her first 35mm film, Suzaku.
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Naomi Kawase's work was originally produced in various media: 8mm film, 16mm film, 35mm film, and video.