Kenji Onishi Movies

A film about Shin Sasakubo's childhood place Chichibu - home of Mt. Buko, known as the “mountain of the gods.” It is the most important...

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

Digital Video

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

Early work 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...

A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges.

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.

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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

Summer in my hometown captured with an 8mm camera. Green light erodes and relieves the drunken times

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...

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.