Kenji Onishi Movies

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

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...

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Digital Video

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...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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...

Film by Kenji Onishi. With friends. Mr. Yamase as main character, Sasakubo and Shinojima. And the girls having a good time. The camera is all you...

8mm film portrait of Fusako Kumagai.

An alternative documentary to Shin Sasakubo's 'Chichibu Rest' made by Kenji Onishi, about Chichibu.

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...

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