Kenji Onishi Movies

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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 b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

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

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who...

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...

Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this...

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...