Kenji Onishi Movies

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Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

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

The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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...

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

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.

A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking.