Kenji Onishi
A central figure on the Tokyo experimental film scene and already a veteran of the international festival circuit, Kenji Onishi has made nearly 200 films since 1990, ranging from Super-8 studies of light to full-length features filled with drugs and violence. His filmmaking output spans many genres, and he has become known for a distinctive personal style that melds structural concerns with overtly sensationalist subject matter.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3171 |
| Birthday | 1973-04-13 |
| Place of Birth | Mie Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 大西健児, Kenji Oonishi, |
2004
MAKING OF SHIROYASHA
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A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.
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MAKING OF SHIROYASHA
2010
A Chinese Fisherman
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A very rare, Super 8 film by Fujiwara Sho (pen name Fujiwara Dragon), that was screened only one time. Some scenes were later reused in one of Kenji O...
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A Chinese Fisherman
1996
Out of Frame (Short Version)
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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 herself against...
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Out of Frame (Short Version)
1997
Zetcho: The Acme
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Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s problems, na...
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Zetcho: The Acme
2010
Coming Future
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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 To...
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Coming Future
2006
Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage
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Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly inte...
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Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage
1996
Aquarium City
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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. Bl...
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Aquarium City
1996
The Underground Water
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The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...
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The Underground Water
1998
Hardcandy
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Hardcandy
1996
The Underground Water (Short Version)
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The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...
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The Underground Water (Short Version)
1996
Aquarium City (Short Version)
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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. Bl...
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Aquarium City (Short Version)
2013
SPRITE
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The film heritage of Yukiyasu Shimada.
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SPRITE
1997
Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)
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Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s problems, na...
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Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)
1995
Squareworld (Short Version)
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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...
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Squareworld (Short Version)
2003
PRAGUE
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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-...
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PRAGUE
2008
VIDA
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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 differe...
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VIDA
2011
Associations of Silverpencils
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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...
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Associations of Silverpencils
2016
Yasuda Satoru World Trip vol.3
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Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...
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Yasuda Satoru World Trip vol.3
1996
Out of Frame
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A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing...
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Out of Frame
1995
Squareworld
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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...
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Squareworld
1997
Blue Max
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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 floor...
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Blue Max
2003
PRAGUE (Short Version)
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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-...
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PRAGUE (Short Version)
2010
MISS JUPITER & MR CLITORIS
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Experimental short by Kenichi Kataoka.
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