Yoko Okumura

Yoko Okumura

DirectorWriterCamera and Electrical Department

Yoko Okumura is a genre-fluid writer, director, and performer. Born in a Buddhist temple in Japan and raised in the frostbite of Minneapolis, she now lives and works in Los Angeles. She is obsessed with telling rebellious stories through underrepresented perspectives and thrives in the intersection…

Actress

Silicon Beach(2018)
1000 Ways to Die(2008)as Race Girl
1:58 AM(2006)as Sleeper

Producer

Lexical Gap(2018)
Barrie Rose: Naked Dream(2015)
Fed Up(2014)
Trivial(2013)
P.O.V.(1988)

Cinematographer

Sands of Mexico(2010)

Sound Department

Thompson(2009)

Visual Effects

The Green Hornet(2011)

Camera and Electrical Department

A Better Place Than This(2012)
Astronaut: The Last Push(2012)
Rejouer(2011)
Project 420(2010)
Shutter Island(2010)

Editorial Department

Lexical Gap(2018)
Rift(2009)

Production Department

Hana Grows a Tail(2016)
Uncertainty Principle(2010)

Thanks

You, Me & Her(2023)
Bloom(2017)

Self

In Creative Company(2020)as Self
Dead Talk Live(2020)as Self - Guest
Just Shoot It(2015)as Self - Guest
Short Ends(2017)as Self - Guest
Tetsuko no heya(1976)as Self