Kenji Onishi Filmes

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

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...

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

A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing...

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...

Tales from a Super 8 workshop in Sangenjaya.

Model Horikawa Nozomi, videogram by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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...

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

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

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...

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...

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

Lengthened version of the film.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A mess of time-lapse and bulb photography using Kodachrome 25 reversal film.