Emiko Omori
- Known for
- Directing
Biography
Emiko Omori has traveled the globe for more than 30 years as a cinematographer for many award-winning documentaries. Omori taught filmmaking in California and Hawai‘i and was the San Francisco Bay Area's first Asian American female news cameraperson. Omori has produced several nationally acclaimed documentaries including: Tattoo City, a documentary about the art of Japanese-style full body tattooing by artist D.E. Hardy; Hot Summer Winds, a drama based on two short stories by Nisei writer Hisaye Yamamoto that was showcased on American Playhouse; Rabbit in the Moon, a feature-length documentary that combines the internees' powerful stories with evocative images resulting in a film that is part documentary, part memoir and part essay. Rabbit in the Moon was broadcast on P.O.V. and received the Best Documentary Cinematography Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and won an Emmy.
Movies with Emiko Omori
- Women Behind the Camera 2007 · ★ 3.0
- To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter 2012 · ★ 6.0
- Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol 2009
Movies directed by Emiko Omori
- Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm 2007 · ★ 4.5
- Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World 2010 · ★ 5.3
- Rabbit in the Moon 1999 · ★ 4.3
- To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter 2012 · ★ 6.0
- Exquisite Moving Corpse 2022
- WTF? 2018
- When Rabbit Left the Moon 2017
- Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio 2020
- Murder in the High Desert 2024
- Manongs Film Project 1979