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Emiko Omori

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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.

Known For

The Times of Harvey Milk

73%

Additional Camera

1984

Black Is… Black Ain’t

58%

Additional Photography

1995
Poster for American Playhouse

American Playhouse

66%

Director

1982

Regret to Inform

79%

Director of Photography

1999

Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm

45%

Director

2007

Street Music

75%

Assistant Camera

1981

Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World

53%

Director

2010

Rabbit in the Moon

43%

Director

1999

Murder in the High Desert

Director

2024

Exquisite Moving Corpse

Director

2022

Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio

Director

2020

WTF?

Director

2018

When Rabbit Left the Moon

Director

2017

Ghost Town to Havana

Director of Photography

2015

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

60%

Narrator (voice)

2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

60%

Producer

2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

60%

Editor

2012

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

60%

Director

2012

Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World

53%

Director

2010

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

Narrator (voice)

2009

Women Behind the Camera

30%

Self

2007

Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm

45%

Director

2007

The Chinatown Files

Director of Photography

2001

Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

65%

Thanks

2001

Rebels with a Cause

100%

Cinematography

2000

Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

Director of Photography

1999

Regret to Inform

79%

Director of Photography

1999

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

90%

Director of Photography

1999

Rabbit in the Moon

43%

Director

1999

Rabbit in the Moon

43%

Producer

1999

Rabbit in the Moon

43%

Editor

1999

Rabbit in the Moon

43%

Director of Photography

1999

Black Is… Black Ain’t

58%

Additional Photography

1995
Poster for The Great Depression

The Great Depression

100%

Director of Photography

1993

Home from the Eastern Sea

Director of Photography

1990

Home from the Eastern Sea

Editor

1990

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