"Chiri" is the close observation of the end of the life of her foster mother, after she had turned 95. Following her mother's daily life as she lives out her time, steadily approaching death, Kawase contemplates the fundamental themes of her own film productions.

「春が来たら"ルンルン気分"になる...」
「幸せは心の中にある...」
杣人達の声は、 優しく、 時に荒々しく、 私達の中にこだまする。
奈良県西吉野村平雄。剥き出しの自然と共に暮らすある6つの家族の姿を綴ったドキュメンタリー作品。
「杣人物語」の撮影は、河瀨にとって初の劇場用映画「萌の朱雀」が完成した直後に同じロケ地で開始された。厳しい自然や過疎に伴う様々な背景と共に、そこに生きる人間の感情を見事に描き出した「萌の朱雀」。けれどその一方で、河瀬はそこにあるフィクションでは描ききれない何かを感じていた。"私はこの地に実際に暮らす人間達のドキュメンタリーを更に撮らなければならない...いや撮りたい"この強く突き動かされる欲望により生まれた「杣人物語」は、この地で生まれ育った人間達の本音が、飾ることなく、気負うことなく素直に表現されるものになった。河瀬のカメラの前にあって、彼等は時に少年であり、少女であり、父であり母であり、恋人であり...。

Documentary film. Starring Ono Machiko (then high school girl in Nishi Yoshino village scouted by Kawase herself for Suzaku) and Mifune Mika (daughter of Mifune Toshiro), Kawase filmed the shooting location for the photograph collection of these two actresses photographed by Arimoto Shinya, the Taiyo Award-winning young photographer and also Kawase's friend.
The conflicted feelings, between the country girl and urban girl and between the film-director and photographer, mirror the significance of life.

位于爱知县冈崎市的吉村医院。这所处于葱郁森林中的妇产医院，汇集着来自全国各地希望自然分娩的产妇。该院的院长吉村正医生一直反复强调说“不安是分娩的大敌。”至今为止吉村医生已经接待产妇超过2万人以上。有的产妇一直认为生产是一件疼痛和痛苦的事情，也有的产妇因为第一次的生产而留下了痛苦的回忆…即便有着各种各样的想法和不安，但每一位准妈妈都会随着预产期的临近，开始闪耀出光芒。守护着她们的家人和助产医生有怎样的想法，在迎接新生命同时还不得不面对生命消逝的吉村医生内心又有怎样的挣扎——身处现代，我们的坚强与脆弱、欢喜与悲伤、我们的怒不可遏与安之若素都交织在一起，无法分离。

因爷爷去世，第三代在日韩国人姜军日（北村一辉 饰）搭乘电车，返回了位于奈良县樱井市大山深处的故乡。质朴乡情扑面而来，此行他还有一项重要的使命，即将一卷绘有一位高句丽王的画轴还给附近狛地（KOMA）的老人。在对方家中，他邂逅老人的女儿初子（中村优子 饰）。老人返身上楼取物，等候期间，军日随同初子外出散心。远眺对面的三轮山，初子向他讲述了一个人类女子和山神结婚生子的古老传说。夜幕降临，昏黄烛火，清酒小菜，老人叙述了关于画卷背后的渊源。友情、亲情、民族，细若游丝的情感缓缓流淌……
本片为“2009三人三色”中的一部。

日本女導演河瀨直美為Miu Miu所拍攝的短片《種子》（Seed），講述了女孩（安藤櫻 Sakura Ando）走出風光迷人的奈良，奔向混沌多元的東京，以及路途中的各種奇遇。

《居家自制》是由世界各地著名电影制作人创作的短片合辑。受新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 爆发的影响，电影制作人受困在家，创作了十分感人的个人故事，记录了我们在隔离期间的共同生活经历。《居家自制》由 Fremantle 旗下公司 The Apartment Pictures 以及 Fabula 制作，颂扬了全球流行病期间电影制作的匠心和持久创造力。这些故事仅使用在家中可以找到的设备拍摄，从制作人日常生活的私密记录，到多种类型的虚构短篇故事，深入观察了封锁如何影响不同国家/地区以及当地人的生活。

“七夜待：日本密教修法之一，全称七夜待大事。即在每月的十七日至二十三日共七夜,配以六观音及大势至菩萨等七尊,每夜住于各尊之三昧,并礼拜之,以祈求诸愿成就。”
30岁的单身女子彩子（長谷川京子 饰）从日本奈良来到泰国，人生地不熟且语言不通让她遇到许多困难。她乘出租车前往七夜酒店，结果反被司机马宾（Netsai Todoroki 饰）拉到山间。惊慌失措的彩子下车逃跑，遇到了隐居丛林中的泰国人母子以及法国男子格雷格（Grégoire Colin 饰）。格雷格是一个同性恋，他和彩子一样选择从喧嚣污浊的现代化都市逃离，寻求灵魂的治愈。原始自然的山林生活渐渐洗去他们身上的疲惫与烦躁，他们跟随当地人学习按摩、用各自的语言交流心事，聚在一起尽情玩乐。这个古老的佛教之国，无声无息荡涤着他们的心灵。只是，置身不同文化背景下的人们各有各的烦恼……

主人公河崎智也教授和翻译助理大山爱在一次访谈中谈及家庭责任，两人双簧一般的表演下掩盖的却是地下情人的身份。

2014 film by Naomi Kawase

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

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.

Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who Mi-Sook once dated herself. The level of social embarrassment goes off the scale. In Naomi Kawase’s Koma (Japan, 34min), Kang Jun-Il travels to a village in rural Japan to honour his grandfather’s dying wish by returning a Buddhist scroll to its ancestral home. Amid ancient superstitions, a new relationship forms. And in Lav Diaz’ Butterflies Have No Memories (Philippines, 42min) ‘homecoming queen’ Carol returns to the economically depressed former mining town she came from – and becomes the target of an absurd kidnapping plot hatched by resentful locals. Serving as his own writer, cameraman and editor, Diaz casts the film entirely from members of his crew and delivers a well-seasoned mix of social realism and fantasy. —bfi

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.

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.

2007 film by Naomi Kawase

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.