Emiko Omori
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Actor
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
Filmography
| 2007 | Women Behind the Camera · as Self |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon · as Self |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Chinese Couplets · as Cinematographer |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter · as Cinematographer |
| 2007 | Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm · as Cinematographer |
| 2000 | Rebels with a Cause · as Cinematographer |
| 2000 | Coming to Light · as Cinematographer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Cinematographer |
| 1999 | Corpus · as Director Of Photography |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon · as Director Of Photography |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon · as Written By |
| 1998 | Regret to Inform · as Director Of Photography |
| 1990 | Home from the Eastern Sea · as Director Of Photography |
| 1989 | The Owl's Legacy · as Cinematographer |
| 1985 | American Masters · as Cinematographer |
| 1985 | Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World · as Cinematographer |
| 1983 | Conversations with Roy DeCarava · as Cinematographer |