Kenji Onishi Movies

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU...

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994.

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...

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...

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

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

A recording of a girl (Nozomi Horikawa) playing with "Shironeko" on a sunny day. "Kuroneko" appears. A private cinema with kittens and trees swaying...

Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...

Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this...

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

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...