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Emiko Omori

Overview

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 Actor Narrator (voice) 58
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2009 Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol Actor Narrator (voice) N/A
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2007 Women Behind the Camera Actor Self 59
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Directing
2024 Murder in the High Desert Directing Director N/A
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2022 Exquisite Moving Corpse Directing Director N/A
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2020 Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio Directing Director N/A
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2018 WTF? Directing Director N/A
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2017 When Rabbit Left the Moon Directing Director N/A
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2012 To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter Directing Director 58
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2010 Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World Directing Director 59
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2007 Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm Directing Director 58
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1999 Rabbit in the Moon Directing Director 59
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Production
2012 To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter Production Producer 58
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1999 Rabbit in the Moon Production Producer 59
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Camera
2015 Ghost Town to Havana Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2001 The Chinatown Files Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1999 Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1999 Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1999 Rabbit in the Moon Camera Director of Photography 59
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1994 Black Is… Black Ain’t Camera Additional Photography 59
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1990 Home from the Eastern Sea Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1988 Slaying the Dragon Camera Other N/A
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1988 Cowboy Poets Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1984 The Times of Harvey Milk Camera Additional Camera 61
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Crew
2001 Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest Crew Thanks N/A
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2000 Rebels with a Cause Crew Cinematography N/A
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1999 Regret to Inform Crew Cinematography 59
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1985 Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World Crew Cinematography N/A
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Editing
2012 To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter Editing Editor 58
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1999 Rabbit in the Moon Editing Editor 59
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1990 Home from the Eastern Sea Editing Editor N/A
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