Kenji Onishi Movies

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

Digital Video

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Sound of rain. Storm. Fixed camera. Time-lapse of skies and clouds. A playful silhouette against the light.

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the...

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...

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of...

Filmed in Vancouver, time-lapse pictures of the view from the hotel in October.

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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