Lisa Onodera

Películas

Novel Romance
Consulting Producer
Book editor Max Normane can perfect anyone’s story apart from her own. Highly successful but highly single, she comes up with a novel plan: a publication in exchange for a sperm donation. But will she get her happy ending?
Americanese
Producer
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other
Day of Independence
Producer
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
La foto del compromiso
Producer
Historia de una joven de 16 años, Riyo, en su viaje a Hawaii para casarse con un hombre al que sólo conoce a través de fotografías y cartas repletas de poesía. La razón de este matrimonio a distancia: escapar de un pasado turbulento y empezar una nueva vida. Nominada a la Palma de Oro en 1994 y premio del público en el festival de Sundance de 1995.
Forbidden City, U.S.A.
Associate Producer
A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.