Film: Rabbit in the Moon

Watch the documentary film, Rabbit in the Moon, written and directed by Emiko Omori and produced by her sister Chizuko on Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II that highlights resistance and other lesser told stories.

NR, 87 mins., 1999. 

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Emiko Omori is a longtime Bay Area resident and a San Francisco State University School of Cinema alumna. She was the first female Asian American cinematographer at KQED, and her most celebrated work, Rabbit in the Moon, explores the Japanese American incarceration experience. She also directed Tattoo City, a documentary on tattoo artist Ed Hardy, among many other films.

Stretching from California’s southern border to northmost tip of Washington state, One Book, One Coast is a brand-new, multi-state community reading initiative that brings readers together around a shared book, sparking conversation, programs and reflection across the West Coast.

Our inaugural selection is They Called Us Enemy (2019), a graphic memoir by George Takei that recounts his childhood experience of incarceration alongside more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of whom were U.S. citizens, following Executive Order 9066 in 1942. 

Read along March–May 2026 and join the programs and discussions it inspires.