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Yoko Okumura

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
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AFI 50th Anniversary
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 of grit and glamour.

Yoko sold a story pitch to Sam Raimi's Quibi horror anthology "50 States of Fright" and is directing the episode titled "America's Largest Ball of Twine" starring Ming-Na Wen and Karen Allen. Her directing clients have included Lifetime/A&E's scripted digital series Fall Into Me, Super Deluxe's Turnt Beauty series and Uproxxx Uncharted series. Branded clients have included Cover Girl, Honda, and Instagram.

Yoko's feature film project The Religion of Girlfriends was accepted into the WIF/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive. Her short, Kimi Kabuki, received a DGA Student Film Award, the Panavision New Filmmakers Award and an Austin Film Festival Jury Award. Yoko is also co-creator of digital series Facets, a documentary episodic about trailblazing women who have carved unique life paths for themselves. Her various doc work has been selected for the Vimeo Staff Pick three times.

Yoko has a BFA in Film/Video from Calarts and an MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute. When not working in media arts Yoko dabbles in fire dancing, aerial arts and would love to learn how to do a back flip.
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AFI 50th Anniversary
Yoko Okumura
Yoko Okumura
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Behind the scenes of "Lexical Gap".
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WIF Oscar Pre-Party 2023
WIF Oscar Pre-Party 2023
Yoko Okumura
On the set of UNSEEN.
Yoko Okumura
DGA Award 2014

Known for:

Missi Pyle, Jolene Purdy, Nicholas X. Parsons, and Midori Francis in Unseen (2023)
Unseen
5.6
  • Director
  • 2023
50 States of Fright (2020)
50 States of Fright
6.6
TV Series
  • Director(directed by)
Michelle Rose and Mabel Garcia in Lexical Gap (2018)
Lexical Gap
Short
  • Director
  • 2018
Kimi Kabuki (2014)
Kimi Kabuki
7.1
Short
  • Director
  • 2014

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Director

  • Fall Into Me
    • Director
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Bryan Craig, Emma Hunton, Cierra Ramirez, Josh Pence, Priscilla Quintana, Zuri Adele, Sherry Cola, and Tommy Martinez in Good Trouble (2019)
    Good Trouble
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Missi Pyle, Jolene Purdy, Nicholas X. Parsons, and Midori Francis in Unseen (2023)
    Unseen
    • Director
    • 2023
  • Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy, and Katie Stevens in The Bold Type (2017)
    The Bold Type
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Etheria Film Festival Showcase 2020 (2020)
    Etheria Film Festival Showcase 2020
    • Director (segment Basic Witch)
    • TV Special
    • 2020
  • Stories in Place: June Jung Tattoo Studio (2020)
    Stories in Place: June Jung Tattoo Studio
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2020
  • 50 States of Fright (2020)
    50 States of Fright
    • Director (directed by)
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Basic Witch (2019)
    Basic Witch
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Michelle Rose and Mabel Garcia in Lexical Gap (2018)
    Lexical Gap
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Yuko Okumura in Strawberries Will Save the World (2017)
    Strawberries Will Save the World
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Jared James Nichols in Uncharted (2015)
    Uncharted
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Sit (2016)
    Sit
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Facets
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Fall Into Me (2016)
    Fall Into Me
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • The Third Wheel (2016)
    The Third Wheel
    • Director (attached)
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Barrie Rose: Naked Dream
    • Director
    • Music Video
    • 2015

Writer

  • 50 States of Fright (2020)
    50 States of Fright
    • story by
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Michelle Rose and Mabel Garcia in Lexical Gap (2018)
    Lexical Gap
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Moving On (2015)
    Moving On
    • Writer
    • Video
    • 2015
  • Our Place in the Sky
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Kimi Kabuki (2014)
    Kimi Kabuki
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2014
  • Last Meal
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2014
  • Erin Segal and Erika Soto in The Darlings (2013)
    The Darlings
    • co-writer
    • Short
    • 2013
  • George and Yoko
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2010
  • The Rescue
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2010
  • 1:58 AM
    • written by
    • Short
    • 2006

Camera and Electrical Department

  • A Better Place Than This (2012)
    A Better Place Than This
    • camera pa
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)
    Astronaut: The Last Push
    • first assistant camera
    • 2012
  • Lancer Dean Shull in Rejouer (2011)
    Rejouer
    • additional second assistant camera
    • 2011
  • Project 420
    • second assistant camera
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (2010)
    Shutter Island
    • second assistant camera: vfx unit (uncredited)
    • 2010
  • Air Force Elite (2009)
    Air Force Elite
    • assistant camera
    • TV Movie
    • 2009

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