May Satsuki Asai

Movies

Blue Bayou
Visual Effects
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Shook
VFX Artist
When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered.
Inheritance
Visual Effects
The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
Ms. Purple
VFX Artist
Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.
The Art of Self-Defense
Visual Effects
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
Bit
Visual Effects
A transgender teenage girl on summer vacation in LA fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city's streets of predatory men.
The Clovehitch Killer
VFX Artist
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.
An Actor Prepares
Visual Effects
After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified against him in his parents' divorce—on one last madcap adventure.
Under the Silver Lake
Visual Effects
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.
Braven
Visual Effects
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
Elizabeth Blue
Visual Effects
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Gook
VFX Artist
Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots, the trio must defend their store—and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.
Max Rose
Visual Effects
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Puerto Ricans in Paris
VFX Artist
NYPD detectives Luis and Eddie visit Paris to help gorgeous French designer Colette catch the black market thief who's ripped off her new handbag design. While Luis' girlfriend Vanessa and Eddie's wife Gloria remain in New York, the hopelessly unhip odd couple stumble through a glamorous high-fashion world brimming with charming cafes, wild nightclubs and corporate treachery.
The Prince
Visual Effects
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
Revenge of the Green Dragons
Visual Effects
A true immigrant story set against the vibrant backdrop of Flushing, N.Y. in the 1980s and 1990s.