Kenji Onishi Movies

‎The film heritage of Yukiyasu Shimada.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Tales from a Super 8 workshop in Sangenjaya.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.

An improvised film sketch with professional actors.

A brief 8mm film sketch of a screening at Hairo.

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

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...

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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...

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...

With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU...

A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops.

Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s...

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.