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.

Film	Credit
MMurder in the High Desert2024 · Director	Director
Exquisite Moving Corpse2022 · Director	Director
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio2020 · Director	Director
WWTF?2018 · Director	Director
WWhen Rabbit Left the Moon2017 · Director	Director
GGhost Town to Havana2015 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter2012 · Narrator (voice), Producer, Director	Narrator (voice), Producer, Director
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World2010 · Director	Director
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol2009 · Narrator (voice)	Narrator (voice)
WWomen Behind the Camera2007 · Self	Self
PPassion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm2007 · Director	Director
The Chinatown Files2001 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena1999 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Regret to Inform1999 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena1999 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
RRabbit in the Moon1999 · Producer, Director, Director of Photography	Producer, Director, Director of Photography
HHome from the Eastern Sea1990 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Cowboy Poets1988 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Manongs Film Project1979 · Director	Director