Kenji Onishi

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.

Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group's surgical headquarters. Numata barely escapes, while a wounded Tosaka gets left behind. Through a series of surreal and gory events, the identities of the organ dealers are revealed as Numata plans his revenge.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm film portrait of Fusako Kumagai.

A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

Everyday events illuminated by the summer sun, seemingly insignificant observations, are brought to life by an 8mm camera. The changing sky, the trajectory of the sun, captured using stop-motion; the camera is a machine that collects light as if cutting out the air itself.

“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.

Experimental film by Minai Kyoko.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Music clip by 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 watch them all again building a metal construction out in the desert. So these men here will find an Asian guy, almost dead: “You have got a point!” The Promised Land? No, and it is someone else who will die in the end. Or will simply end up in hallucinations.

An experimental 8mm night film made of handheld urban fragments.