Kenji Onishi Movies

An experimental 8mm night film made of handheld urban fragments.

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

Short super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work 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...

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental.

Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the...

An expanded version of Dynamite Traverse Variations with the Chichibu Avantists members in Setouchi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.