Kenji Onishi Movies

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...

Digital Video

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

Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...

"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...

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

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

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.