Kenji Onishi Movies

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video

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

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Electronic Pinokio (2005) is playful again with its material (video) and the optical illusions you can produce and also provoke with it. But mainly...

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...

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

A brief 8mm film sketch of a screening at Hairo.