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Yoko Okumura is a Japanese-American film director, writer and producer. She is best known for directing the horror film Unseen (2023).
Yoko Okumura (she/her) is a writer and director who loves to tell rebellious stories and thrives in the intersection of grit and glamour. She directed the feature thriller UNSEEN for BLUMHOUSE, and episodes of BALL OF TWINE for the horror anthology Sam Raimi's 50 STATES OF FRIGHT.
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.
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Mar 7, 2023 · This is how filmmaker Yoko Okumura now describes her perspective as a director. Of course, it took a long time for her to reach this artistic destination — 16 years, in fact — but she always knew making movies was her calling. It was simply a matter of knowing how to get there.
- How Did That Translate Into Working on “Unseen?”
- Did Blumhouse Have Any Resistance to Your Casting?
- Do You Want to Stick to Horror in The Future?
What was amazing about AFI is I got to hone, to discover what it is to be a personal filmmaker. That also translates that into a larger fictional universe. I made a short film called “Kimmy Kabuki” that was about a housewife [who] follows her deceptive husband to a porn convention and then learns about intimacy from his favorite porn star. I’ve nev...
They were very supportive from the very beginning. They knew who I was as a filmmaker and were very supportive of making sure these two lead women felt authentic to me. [Jolene’s Sam is] the hero I need in the world. I grew up with a lot of body-image issues and food issues, and I just look back at the people that were supposed to be our role model...
I’m always the kind of person who has so many eggs in so many baskets, and plates spinning. I want to continue making colorful, gritty, glamorous, horror films, thriller films. I want to work in genre but bring my feminine pop culture sensibility to it and start making my own version of what horror can be. I would love to make a body horror film th...
Mar 6, 2023 · Yoko Okumura talks about her horror/thriller debut, Unseen, starring Midori Francis and Jolene Purdy. She reveals how she cast, shot and edited the film, and how she balanced the tone and genre shifts.
Yoko Okumura is a filmmaker who creates short films, documentaries and music videos. See her featured work, such as Play, a short film about a woman who escapes from a cult.
