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...

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The man was seeking pleasure beyond sex. And the ultimate ecstasy he sought was pace poles and the death throes of a person. The man drags his friend...

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

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...

With an 8mm camera in hand, I explored my old town, capturing deserted beaches, dingy abandoned sites, washed-up dead fish, and hikes with my...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2009, in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in...

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and...

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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An attempt to let one's identity emerge by piercing fragments of 8mm film shot over some 20 years. The filmmaker's muttering and breathing...

Digital Video

Training for the movie『SUICIDE BOX』.