Kenji Onishi Movies

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

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

Documentary about japanese painter Akira Tsuboi.

Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s...

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly...

Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s...

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

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

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme...

The underground cinematheque. Last time Fujica and 311 Fukushima. The case against perfection - Fujica Single-8.

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

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

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

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.