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Emiko Omori

Emiko Omori

Known For Directing
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Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Feb 22, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date May 01, 2024
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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 d ... ocumentaries 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

Filmography

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

2012

as Narrator (voice)

Ghost Town to Havana

Ghost Town to Havana

2015

Director of Photography

Rebels with a Cause

Rebels with a Cause

2000

Cinematography

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

1999

Director of Photography

Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

1999

Director of Photography

Regret to Inform

Regret to Inform

1999

Cinematography

Rabbit in the Moon

Rabbit in the Moon

1999

Editor, Director of Photography

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

1994

Additional Photography

Home from the Eastern Sea

Home from the Eastern Sea

1990

Editor, Director of Photography

Cowboy Poets

Cowboy Poets

1988

Director of Photography

Slaying the Dragon

Slaying the Dragon

1988

Other

The Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984

Additional Camera

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World

1983

Cinematography

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

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