Kenji Onishi Movies

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A recording of a girl (Nozomi Horikawa) playing with "Shironeko" on a sunny day. "Kuroneko" appears. A private cinema with kittens and trees swaying...

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994.

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

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

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

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless...

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.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

“N” as in Nurse. A man wandering in an abandoned hospital ward, reflections on Lost Time, Violence and traces of Nostalgia. 16mm film...

"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...