Kenji Onishi Movies

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

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...

The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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...

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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

Film by Kenji Onishi. With friends. Mr. Yamase as main character, Sasakubo and Shinojima. And the girls having a good time. The camera is all you...

8mm film portrait of Fusako Kumagai.

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.