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
The Times of Harvey Milk
October 7, 1984
Black Is… Black Ain’t
October 11, 1995
Regret to Inform
July 22, 1999
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
October 9, 2010
Slaying the Dragon
November 4, 1988
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
October 1, 2012
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
July 13, 1999
Rebels with a Cause
November 10, 2000
Cowboy Poets
April 7, 1988
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
January 1, 1983
Exquisite Moving Corpse
May 9, 2022
The Chinatown Files
November 9, 2001
Behind the camera23
- 2024Murder in the High Desert Director
- 2022Exquisite Moving Corpse Director
- 2020Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio Director
- 2018WTF? Director
- 2017When Rabbit Left the Moon Director
- 2015Ghost Town to Havana Director of Photography
- 2012To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter Producer, Editor, Director
- 2010Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World Director
- 2007Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm Director
- 2001