Emiko Omori Movies

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

James Wakasa was shot and killed by a Topaz guard in 1943. Some 78 years later, a monument built by Issei in camp was found and removed from the site...

Created from footage and outtakes from Rabbit in the Moon. An elegy to her parents’ generation—the Issei (immigrants)—and the...

A collection of film clips of what would become Curtis Choy’s seminal documentary The Fall of the I-Hotel. This work-in-progress documentary...

The May’s Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and...