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- Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
- On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
- Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious aura and eccentric personality the woodsman finds a place in the visitor's heart.
- A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
- A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
- A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
- Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
- Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
- The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
- Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.
- A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
- Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.
- 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.
- Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals Kawase's impatience when coming to terms with her foster mother's senility, and at the same time dwells on her aging naked body with a subtle sense of affection. Twelve years after shooting 'Katatsumori (1994)', her first film about the foster mother, Kawase made 'Tarachime' to document the decline of one life at the beginning of another - during the making of the film, Kawase's son was born.
- In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
- A filmed correspondence between Kawase Naomi and Hirokazu Koreeda.
- About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
- The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii.
- Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
- Thirty-year-old Hako unexpectedly discovers she has a father that she never met, while he records the moment live on camera. Unexpected emotions, bitterness, and forgiveness rise to the surface in the unscripted scenes between them.
- Impressions of the director's mother waving, burning trash, slideshow of mom gardening, slow motion of mom pointing skyward until Naomi jumps over her. No real time sound - but foley noises or kids playing. Ends with sunsets as Naomi sings a nursery rhyme.
- A film-within-a-film from Kawase's "Radiance" (2017). The film depicts a man who is obsessed with the woman of his destiny and clings to the past, and his wife who suffers from dementia.