Kenji Onishi Movies

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...

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme...

Sound of rain. Storm. Fixed camera. Time-lapse of skies and clouds. A playful silhouette against the light.

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

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

Production and sale of Fujichrome RT200 sound film stock ended in 1999. It was the ultimate analogue technology allowing audio to be simultaneously...

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated....

The underground cinematheque. Last time Fujica and 311 Fukushima. The case against perfection - Fujica Single-8.

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

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...