Kenji Onishi Movies

Sound of rain. Storm. Fixed camera. Time-lapse of skies and clouds. A playful silhouette against the light.

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Filmed in Vancouver, time-lapse pictures of the view from the hotel in October.

Dynamite Traverse Variations Tour with members of Chichibu Avantists (Shin Sasakubo × Daisuke Aoki × Haruka Shimizu). In the remains of...

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Lengthened version of the film.

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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

A psychological drama filmed when I was fond of Japanese detective stories. The monologue of a killer with a shovel inspired by real maniacs, from...

武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山,...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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....