Emiko Omori
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Emiko Omori
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.
Known For
Acting
(2012)
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Women Behind the Camera
as Self
Crew
(2024)
Murder in the High Desert
Director
(2022)
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Director
(2020)
(2018)
WTF?
Director
(2017)
When Rabbit Left the Moon
Director
(2015)
Ghost Town to Havana
Director of Photography
(2012)
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
Producer, Editor, Director
(2010)
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
Director
(2007)
(2001)
The Chinatown Files
Director of Photography
(2001)
(2000)
Rebels with a Cause
Cinematography
(1999)
Regret to Inform
Cinematography
(1999)
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
Director of Photography
(1999)
Rabbit in the Moon
Producer, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
(1999)
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena
Director of Photography
(1994)
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Additional Photography
(1990)
Home from the Eastern Sea
Editor, Director of Photography
(1988)
Slaying the Dragon
Other
(1988)
Cowboy Poets
Director of Photography
(1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk
Additional Camera
(1983)
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
Cinematography
(1981)
Street Music
Assistant Camera