Kenji Onishi Movies

An experimental 8mm night film made of handheld urban fragments.

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

Experimental film by Kenji Onishi.

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

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

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...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

An ordinary, everyday scene is transported to the scene of a bizarre, gruesome murder. An unreal world infiltrates the corners of everyday life. That...

A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and...

Digital Video

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.

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

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...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.