Kenji Onishi Movies

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges.

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...

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.

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...

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

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and...

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...

I filmed the sunrise on January the 1st, 1995. This short was originally meant to be a test roll for a feature film I was going to shoot. I really...

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless...

Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing...

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who...

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

Onishi’s short Book Of Genesis (2002) shows us in an impressive way the connection between the sky and skylines, made of all that technical...

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

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

A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking.