Kenji Onishi Movies

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...

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...

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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.

Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer.

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.