Kenji Onishi Movies

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

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

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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...