Kenji Onishi Movies

Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer.

A nostalgic summer festival. Revisiting some dark footage through the images of memory. As an afterimage, it appears like a ghost.

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

Lengthened version of the film.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

Experimental short directed by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental film directed by Kenji Onishi

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

“N” as in Nurse. A man wandering in an abandoned hospital ward, reflections on Lost Time, Violence and traces of Nostalgia. 16mm film...

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

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and...

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

I returned to 8mm home movies for this compilation film, shot during the final year of my grandmother's life, and, beginning with footage of her...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.