Movies: Kenji Onishi

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 hero as he is trying to survive amidst violent, desperate men and desolate landscapes. Later we will wat...

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 the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is...

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Dynamite Traverse Variations Tour with members of Chichibu Avantists (Shin Sasakubo × Daisuke Aoki × Haruka Shimizu). In the remains of Koumi stone quarry, original musical scores have been carved into the stone blocks like graphics. Video by Kenji O...

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2010 in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in the heart of Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsu...

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8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area...

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model....

“N” as in Nurse. A man wandering in an abandoned hospital ward, reflections on Lost Time, Violence and traces of Nostalgia. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi....

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

Documentary about japanese painter Akira Tsuboi....

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Experimental short by Kenji Onishi....

An alternative documentary to Shin Sasakubo's 'Chichibu Rest' made by Kenji Onishi, about Chichibu....

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. Blue and grey are the most prominent colours, and a sky turning white while a young woman is using dru...

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of Mt. Buko, whose destruction still continues even today......

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme close-ups, expectations and black inserts....

Planet +1 Osaka. Screening associations of Silverpencils....

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is different, you walk down the street and the sun turns into a light bulb again, the houses are asleep...

Kenji Onishi films Takahiko Takayanagi, journalist of Yomiuri-paper, local TV. Ibaraki prefecture prefectural assembly member election. The barefoot election district....