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Kayo Hatta (March 18, 1958 – July 20, 2005) was an American filmmaker, writer, and community activist. She directed and co-wrote the independent dramatic feature-length film Picture Bride , which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in 1995 for Best Dramatic Film.
Jul 29, 2005 · Kayo Hatta, who co-wrote and directed “Picture Bride,” an award-winning film about a young Japanese woman’s struggle to adjust to an arranged marriage and the hardships of Hawaii plantation life,...
Jul 31, 2005 · Kayo Hatta, an independent filmmaker whose 1995 film, ''Picture Bride,'' won an audience award for best dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival, died on July 20. She was 47.
Kayo Hatta was born on 18 March 1958 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She was a director and writer, known for Picture Bride (1994), Fishbowl (2005) and Independent Lens (1999). She died on 20 July 2005 in San Diego, California, USA.
The film tells the story of a Japanese girl (played by Youki Kudoh) moving to Hawaii in 1918, only to discover that her husband is much older than his photo, and that the conditions on the island are harsh. The movie was showered with praise upon its release, winning the Audience Award for “Best Dramatic Feature” at the Sundance Film Festival.
Jul 29, 2005 · Kayo Hatta, an independent filmmaker whose 1995 film “Picture Bride” won an audience award for best dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival, died July 20 in a drowning accident in the San...
Apr 23, 1995 · The film maker Kayo Hatta, who is in her early 30's, remembers as a child listening with fascination to her grandmothers' accounts of the picture brides they had known; years later she decided to...
