Kenji Onishi Movies

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

The underground cinematheque. Last time Fujica and 311 Fukushima. The case against perfection - Fujica Single-8.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video

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.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a...