Kenji Onishi Movies

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2010 in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work by Kenji Onishi.

A very rare, Super 8 film by Fujiwara Sho (pen name Fujiwara Dragon), that was screened only one time. Some scenes were later reused in one of Kenji...

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Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the...

Shooting began with pointing the camera at the sunset seen through the window at home, and continued until all the 8mm film I had was used up. The...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

Kenji Onishi's 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside.

Kenji Onishi’s 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside.

Depiction of the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker’s father who dies and is cremated.

An attempt to let one's identity emerge by piercing fragments of 8mm film shot over some 20 years. The filmmaker's muttering and breathing...

Super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.