Kenji Onishi Movies

I returned to 8mm home movies for this compilation film, shot during the final year of my grandmother's life, and, beginning with footage of her...

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.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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