Kenji Onishi Movies

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer.

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...

The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.

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

A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director...

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work by Kenji Onishi.

A psychological drama filmed when I was fond of Japanese detective stories. The monologue of a killer with a shovel inspired by real maniacs, from...

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

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

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

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the...

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

Featuring Miyagawa Fumiko.