Kyoko Gasha

Documentary Filmmaker

Kyoko Gasha is a documentary film director and a reporter and producer for Thomson Reuters in New York City.

A native of Japan, Gasha began her career as a broadcast journalist at TV Tokyo in 1987. In 1991-1992, she received a Fulbright scholarship and attended the Michigan Journalism Fellow Program. In 2001, Gasha was hired by Reuters as a reporter and moved to New York.

In 2009, she released the documentary film Mothers’ Way, Daughters' Choice.

Featured Work

MAY 9, 2016 Podcast

A Filmmaker's Experience on Leaving Japan

Documentary filmmaker and TV journalist Kyoko Gasha discusses her film "Mothers' Way, Daughters' Choice," which is about Japanese women (like she herself) who remade their ...