Edgewood Pictures

THE LAMASTAS [ comedy | 1998 ]
Jimmy will go to any lengths to get back in the good graces of his ex-girlfriend (Lauren Velez). This includes a search for financial wealth that he thinks will impress her. He decides to rob a bank and hires a crew of bungling idiots. They find themselves in a stalemate with the cops, locked inside an empty bank vault with no way out other than a police escort.

NOGUCHI [ drama | in development ]
Noguchi is a fictional feature film depicting the tumultuous life of one of the most important American artists of the 20th century, Isamu Noguchi. Abandoned by his Japanese father poet Yone Noguchi and raised by his Irish American mother, Leonie Gilmour, Isamu tried to bridge the cultural divide between his parents, between East and West, and between two distinct histories of art and thought. Noguchi is an emotional journey of personal self-discovery and familial absolution in a historical landscape of international and personal wars.

WINGS OF DEFEAT [ documentary | 2007 ]
Winner of the 2009 Organization of American Historians' Erik Barnow Award, Wings of Defeat brings viewers behind the scenes of World War II’s Pacific theater to reveal the truth about the Kamikaze—the “suicide bombers” of their day. Interviews with surviving kamikaze, rare battle footage and Japanese propaganda reveal a side of WWII never before shown on film.

A STROKE OF LUCK [ documentary | in production ]
A Stroke of Luck is a feature documentary about a mother and daughter coping with aging and illness as immigrants in America. Director Risa Morimoto's mother, Noriko or Baba, a Japanese pet name for grandmother, suffered a severe stroke in 2001 leaving her with right side paresis. Through her rehabilitation, she discovered she is a brilliant left-handed painter. Baba shares her extraordinary life journey from war-torn Manchuria, China then to post-war Japan, and finally to 1960s New York through her striking watercolors.