Naomi Kawase – “True Mothers’ ( japanese title Asa ga kuru)
(Azu Makita was in “After the Storm” “The Third Murder’, “The Shoplifters” directed by Kore eda)
Juliette Binoche and Naomi Kawase photographed by Leslie Kee for Vogue Taiwan, 2018
The Dvd of “True Mother”s offers Bonus feature discussion of Naomi Kawase and Juliette Binoche. Both ladies often became emotional and were in tears.
Naomi Kawase
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Naomi Kawase wiki
She employs this documentary-realism to focus on individuals of lesser cultural status, challenging prevailing representations of women within the male-dominated Japanese film industry.[1] This theme is also connected to her own personal reflections on contemporary issues in the current climate of economic depression such as the declining birthrate, alienation, and the collapse of traditional family structures