Kenji Onishi Movies

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

“N” as in Nurse. A man wandering in an abandoned hospital ward, reflections on Lost Time, Violence and traces of Nostalgia. 16mm film...

I filmed the sunrise on January the 1st, 1995. This short was originally meant to be a test roll for a feature film I was going to shoot. I really...

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...

Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the...

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

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

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

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...

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

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...

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental 8mm short by Yuki Kanaya and Kenji Onishi.