Four films directed by Naomi Kawase are on the Criterion Channel: Still the Water  2つ目の窓, An (Sweet Beans) あん, Hikari (Radiance) 光, and her last long-feature Asa ga kuru (True Mothers) 朝が来る, which features music composed by Tôn Thất An and Akira Kosemura.

“Building from an early start in nonfiction filmmaking, Naomi Kawase has developed a lyrical, quietly affecting body of work over the past three decades, exploring Japanese family structures and cultural values through a profoundly empathetic lens. Describing her narrative works as “fiction with a documentarian’s gaze,” Kawase steeps her films in the beauty and sensual pleasures of the natural world, finding deep spiritual and philosophical resonances. Featuring the moving slice-of-life drama SWEET BEAN and the streaming premiere of Kawase’s latest, the heartrending family portrait TRUE MOTHERS, this sampler of some of Kawase’s recent films offers an introduction to an artist of supreme sensitivity and emotional insight.”

Here’s the link to the Criterion Channel
Directed by Naomi Kawase