Emiko Omori
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GenderFemale
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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…
Murder in the High Desert
2024 · Director
Exquisite Moving Corpse
2022 · Director
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio
2020 · Director
WTF?
2018 · Director
When Rabbit Left the Moon
2017 · Director
Ghost Town to Havana
2015 · Director of Photography
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
2012 · Narrator (voice)
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
2012 · Producer
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
2012 · Editor
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
2012 · Director
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
2010 · Director
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Women Behind the Camera
2007 · Self
Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm
2007 · Director
The Chinatown Files
2001 · Director of Photography
Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest
2001 · Thanks
Rebels with a Cause
2000 · Cinematography
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena
1999 · Director of Photography
Regret to Inform
1999 · Director of Photography
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
1999 · Director of Photography
Rabbit in the Moon
1999 · Producer
Rabbit in the Moon
1999 · Editor
Rabbit in the Moon
1999 · Director
Rabbit in the Moon
1999 · Director of Photography
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995 · Additional Photography
The Great Depression
1993 · Director of Photography
Home from the Eastern Sea
1990 · Editor
Home from the Eastern Sea
1990 · Director of Photography
Slaying the Dragon
1988 · Other
Cowboy Poets
1988 · Director of Photography
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Additional Camera
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
1983 · Cinematography
American Playhouse
1982 · Director
American Playhouse
1982 · Writer
Street Music
1981 · Assistant Camera
Manongs Film Project
1979 · Director
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