Kenji Onishi

Known for: Directing
Born: April 13, 1973, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Movies: 217

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.

Upcoming Kenji Onishi Movies

Tokyo 100 Yen and Rat Man

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.2

F.F.F.

2002

4.0

Squareworld

1995

5.5

1996

7.0

SWEET VOICE

1994

5.0

CAT ＆ CURTAIN

1995

5.0

Santokei

1991

10.0

F.F.F. UNCUT

2002

5.0

A Burning Star

1999

5.0

A Burning Star (Short Version)

1999

7.0

Celluloid Memory

1993

Filmography

2016	Yasuda Satoru World Trip vol.3
2013	SPRITE
2013	Film Pilgrimage in Niigata: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
2011	Associations of Silverpencils
2010	Buchou to UFO-gokko
2010	A Chinese Fisherman
2010	Coming Future
2010	MISS JUPITER & MR CLITORIS
2008	VIDA
2006	Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage
2004	MAKING OF SHIROYASHA
2003	PRAGUE
2000	Out of Frame (Short Version)
1998	Hardcandy
1997	Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)
1997	Zetcho: The Acme
1997	Blue Max
1996	The Underground Water (Short Version)
1996	The Aquarium City (Short Version)
1996	The Aquarium City
1996	The Underground Water
1996	Out of Frame
1995	Squareworld (Short Version)
1995	Squareworld
1995	Sketch of Kanahama, the Repair Worker

Directing, Writing & Producing

2019	-YAMASE-	Director
2017	Look Behind!	Producer
2017	Almost Ghost	Director
2016	Yasuda Satoru World Trip vol.3	Producer
2015	GLASSHALL	Director
2015	Chichibu Rest	Director
2013	Sound Hunting	Producer
2013	Film workshop when there is no more FILM!	Director
2013	Akira Tsuboi Documents	Director
2013	Fujica Single Green	Director
2013	RE HOME MOVIE	Director
2013	A Quiet Island	Director
2012	Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Spring	Director
2012	Film Workshop In OSAKA - Winter	Director
2012	Cat Dream	Director
2012	Association Of Silverpencils 8mm Film Workshop	Director
2012	Tanzan session	Director
2012	WELCOME TO LEVEL5	Director
2012	a dog at SANGENJAYA	Director
2012	Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer	Director
2012	Light Spends Life	Director
2012	RULEBOOK of the END	Director
2012	Nostalghia Nostalghia	Director
2011	Radioactive Boy	Director
2011	Screening For Old Men	Director
2011	Golden Era: Newclear Exposed	Director
2011	Quiet Ghost	Director
2011	EDGE CUTTERS	Director
2011	Associations of Silverpencils	Director
2010	Lantern Sight	Director
2010	EDGE CUTTERS	Director
2010	SHOUT at DAWN	Director
2010	AFTERIMAGE OF SUMMER	Director
2010	Silver Pencils	Director
2010	UFO Flying Course	Director
2010	Blue Nostalgia	Director
2010	EDGE CUTTERS	Director
2009	Furuyashiki Village Freeloader	Director
2009	REHEARSAL of WIZARD	Director
2009	DOC for DOCs	Director
2009	Cinediary May	Director
2009	Cinediary February	Director
2009	Cinediary March	Director
2009	Chromemile	Director
2008	Field Feet	Director
2008	VIDA	Director
2007	Crazy Exposure	Director
2007	YAMATO LIVE	Director
2007	RAPE BOY	Director
2007	SILVERROSE	Director
2007	REHEARSAL of WIZARD	Director
2007	FUJICABLUEを目指	Director
2007	Cold Fish	Director
2007	FUJICABLUE	Director
2007	Earthmile	Director
2007	KODABLOOD	Director
2007	EKTADREAM	Director
2007	FUJICABLUE 孤独な映画	Director
2007	REHEARSAL of WIZARD	Director
2006	A Pink Sledge	Director
2006	Zeiss The Last Chapter of Broadcast	Director
2006	An Acidbrown	Director
2006	Grass Hole	Director
2006	Maron Fairy	Director
2006	Mashroom Dream	Director
2005	FUJICABLUEを目指	Director
2005	Electric Pinokio (Short Version)	Director
2005	Electronic Pinokio	Director
2005	Garden Green	Director
2005	Snow Spot	Director
2004	MAKING OF SHIROYASHA	Director
2004	PORNOGRIFFITH	Director
2003	PRAGUE	Director
2003	Sesami Spirit	Director
2003	Ode to Beauty	Director
2002	肉食獣 HAM	Director
2002	FLAHERTY SEMINAR 2002	Director
2002	F.F.F.	Director
2002	F.F.F. (Short Version)	Director
2002	F.F.F. UNCUT	Director
2002	Book of Genesis	Director
2001	DYNASTY 6Ｂ	Director
2001	East End	Director
2000	NOTHING GOSE	Director
2000	Out of Frame (Short Version)	Director, Screenplay
2000	EKTADIARY: NIGHT COLOURS	Director
2000	Foulplay, Colored Strowberry, On Air	Director
1999	Northern Lights (Short Version)	Director
1999	Northern Lights	Director
1999	A Burning Star	Director
1999	A Burning Star (Short Version)	Director
1998	TAKAHIKO TAKAYANAGI	Director
1998	車窓 -WINDOW-	Director
1998	KU MI KO	Director
1998	THRASHGIRLS	Director
1998	Footsteps	Director
1998	Atlantic Fog Area et	Director
1998	Road Runner	Director
1998	Ecrips of Hunting (Short Version)	Director
1998	Hardcandy	Director
1998	Alley Child	Director
1998	Rabbit Hunting	Director
1998	KU MI KO #2	Director
1998	Morning High	Director
1997	Bourbon Time	Director
1997	TRIANGLE⊿SLANT	Producer, Director
1997	The Air-Conditioning System	Director
1997	SMOKING HIGH	Director
1997	s-cam	Director
1997	Night of Orley	Director
1997	The Mirage, The Horizon (Short Version)	Director
1997	The Mirage, The Horizon	Director
1997	Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)	Director
1997	Zetcho: The Acme	Director
1997	功夫 GIRL	Director
1997	BRUCE	Director
1997	BACON	Director
1997	SUICIDE BOX	Director
1997	SWEAT OF FLOOR	Director
1997	SEXUAL INTERCOURSE CAMERA #1	Director
1997	WALL	Director
1997	WINTER SQUARE	Director
1997	SEXUAL INTERCOURSE CAMERA #4	Director
1997	Blue Max	Director
1997	START!	Director
1997	Sketch of KANAHAMA MakeUp#2	Director
1997	Sketch of Kanahama: What Comes Next...	Director
1997	Sketch of Kanahama: Suicide Training — Reel 2	Director
1997	Sketch of Kanahama: Suicide Training — Reel 4	Director
1997	V-GST from The Air-Conditioning System	Director
1996	The Memory of Celluloid (Revised Version)	Director
1996	View	Director
1996	Light of Darkness (Summer Sketch)	Director
1996	The World of Kaoru Tachibana	Director
1996	MY SIGHT -VANCOUVER編-	Director
1996	Cassiopeia Land	Director
1996	Ecrips of Hunting	Director
1996	SHOUT at DAWN	Director
1996	N	Director
1996	Light Of Darkness	Director
1996	The Lightning Train	Director
1996	The Underground Water (Short Version)	Director
1996	The Aquarium City (Short Version)	Director
1996	The Aquarium City	Director
1996	Out of Frame	Director, Screenplay
1996	The Underground Water	Director
1996	Light Point	Director
1995	CAT ＆ CURTAIN	Director
1995	Squareworld (Short Version)	Director
1995	Squareworld	Director
1995	Suburban Midnight Serial Murder Case (Prologue)	Director
1995	STORNS	Director
1995	SMILE FILM	Director
1995	Canvas (Short Version)	Director
1995	SONG	Director
1995	HORAIZON	Director
1995	Midnight Train	Director
1995	Midnight Symphony	Director
1995	Afterimage Of Summer: My Grandpa	Director
1995	Sketch of Kanahama, the Repair Worker	Director
1994	Canvas (Mid-lenght Version)	Director
1994	SWEET VOICE	Director
1994	Afterimage Of Summer: My Grandpa (Short Version)	Director
1994	In the Shadow of a Tree	Director
1994	Sorrowful Summer	Director
1994	Summertime Landscape	Director
1994	Cat Position	Director
1994	LONELY FIGURE RAILWAY	Director
1994	Summertime Landscape Express	Director
1994	Let's Go to Yosuke Okawado's House	Director
1993	Celluloid Memory	Director
1993	BURN	Director
1993	Kareki no uta o kiku mono nashi	Director
1993	First Anniversary	Director
1993	Film Passion '93	Director
1993	Nightshift	Director
1993	Afterimage Of Summer	Director
1993	Curtain	Director
1993	Canvas	Director
1992	WINTER SPOT	Director
1992	DEEP SKY Part II	Director
1992	SOUL ICN	Director
1992	WHITE	Director
1992	DEEP SKY	Director
1992	Yu-so	Director
1991	SHADOW FOREST	Director
1991	DEEP-SEA FISH	Director
1991	WAVE	Director
1991	Garden	Director
1991	Meet The Forest Demon	Director
1991	Santokei	Director
1990	BLOW WIND	Director

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