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Japanese film director Naomi Kawase speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Kawase was named to make the documentary film about Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics. She said she hoped to focus partly on reconstruction efforts in the northern Fukushima region of Japan, which was devastate by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 and a resulting nuclear disaster. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Naomi Kawase named to direct 2020 Tokyo Olympic documentary

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 28, 2017 photo, Japanese director Naomi Kawase speaks during an interview at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Tokyo. From her earliest works with a hand-held camera focused on everyday objects to her prize-winning Cannes films, Japanese director Kawase has shown her determination to reach for eternity. She tells the AP she is fascinated by how film can bring together the past and the future. “You must always be able to catch what is being born” the director says backstage from her first opera, opening next month in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Japan auteur Kawase exploring how film ties past and future

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press