Kenji Onishi Movies

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Electronic Pinokio (2005) is playful again with its material (video) and the optical illusions you can produce and also provoke with it. But mainly...

Onishi’s short Book Of Genesis (2002) shows us in an impressive way the connection between the sky and skylines, made of all that technical...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking.

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...

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

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work 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...

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of...

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

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 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...