Emiko Omori
Directing
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
Directing11
movieExquisite Moving Corpse
2022
Director
WTF?
2018
Director
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Director
movieManongs Film Project
1979
Director
Camera13
Ghost Town to Havana
2015
Director of Photography
movieThe Chinatown Files
2001
Director of Photography
movieConversations with Intellectuals About Selena
1999
Director of Photography
movieRegret to Inform
1999
Director of Photography
movieCorpus: A Home Movie About Selena
1999
Director of Photography
Rabbit in the Moon
1999
Director of Photography
movieBlack Is… Black Ain’t
1995
Additional Photography
tvThe Great Depression
1993
Director of Photography
Home from the Eastern Sea
1990
Director of Photography
movieCowboy Poets
1988
Director of Photography
movieThe Times of Harvey Milk
1984
Additional Camera
Street Music
1981
Assistant Camera
Acting3
Crew3
movieRebels with a Cause
2000
Cinematography
movieHopi: Songs of the Fourth World
1983
Cinematography
Editing3
Production2
Writing1
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Writer