Kumie Movies
- 2020
True Mothers
True Mothers7.2922020HD
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt...
- 2017
Radiance
Radiance6.692017HD
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
- 2014
Still the Water
Still the Water6.8852014HD
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...
- 2007
The Mourning Forest
The Mourning Forest6.82007HD
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...
- 2018
Vision
Vision4.92018HD
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
- 2011
3.11 A Sense of Home
3.11 A Sense of Home6.52011HD
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.
- 2012
Hanezu
Hanezu62012HD
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi...
- 2010
Genpin
Genpin52010HD
About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
- 2008
Nanayo
Nanayo7.12008HD
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
- 1994
Katatsumori
Katatsumori71994HD
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
- 2006
Birth/Mother
Birth/Mother6.32006HD
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and...
- 1992
Embracing
Embracing6.21992HD
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...
- 2001
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth62001HD
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
- 1996
Sun on the Horizon
Sun on the Horizon71996HD
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the...
- 2012
Trace
Trace6.52012HD
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...
- 1998
The Weald
The Weald5.71998HD
Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.
- 1995
See Heaven
See Heaven51995HD
The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing their love and attachment...