Kenji Onishi Movies

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

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...

Kaoru Tachibana’s 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

An alternative documentary to Shin Sasakubo's 'Chichibu Rest' made by Kenji Onishi, about Chichibu.

A private film from the Nagoya era. Single-8 lens fetishism photographing Nozomi Horikawa.

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding...

A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated....

Experimental short 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...

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

Model Horikawa Nozomi, videogram by Kenji Onishi.

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.