Kenji Onishi Movies

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director...

Lengthened version of the film.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm film portrait of Fusako Kumagai.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Kenji Onishi’s 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

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...

Model Horikawa Nozomi, videogram by Kenji Onishi.

Depiction of the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker’s father who dies and is cremated.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short 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...