Kenji Onishi Movies

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...

A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...

Digital Video

Short super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

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.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops.

Digital Video

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