Kenji Onishi Movies

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Shooting began with pointing the camera at the sunset seen through the window at home, and continued until all the 8mm film I had was used up. The...

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.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

‎The film heritage of Yukiyasu Shimada.

Documentary about japanese painter Akira Tsuboi.

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...

A film about Shin Sasakubo's childhood place Chichibu - home of Mt. Buko, known as the “mountain of the gods.” It is the most important...

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...

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...