
Kenji Onishi
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 13, 1973
- Birthplace
- Mie Prefecture, Japan
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.
Filmography

Tokyo 100 Yen and Rat Man TBA
Director

IDOM's Testament IV 2022
Cinematography

The Chichibu 2021
Editor

IDOM's Testament Ⅲ (short version) 2021
Editor, Cinematography

IDOM's Testament Ⅲ 2021
Editor

IDOM's Testament II 2020
Editor, Cinematography

Thank you, Bukō-san 2019
Cinematography

-YAMASE- 2019
Director

Look Behind! 2017
Producer

Almost Ghost 2017
Director

Yasuda Satoru World Trip vol.3 2016
Actor, Producer

Funeral in the Wind 2016
Cinematography, Editor

Dynamite Traverse Variations 2016
Editor

Setouchi 2016
Editor

GLASSHALL 2015
Director

PYRAMID: Kaleidoscope Memories of Destruction 2015
Director of Photography, Editor

Chichibu Rest 2015
Director

Dog's Ornaments 2013
Director of Photography

Chichibu Rest 2013
Director of Photography

SPRITE 2013
Actor, Editor, Cinematography

Sound Hunting 2013
Producer

Film workshop when there is no more FILM! 2013
Director

Akira Tsuboi Documents 2013
Director

Fujica Single Green 2013
Director

RE HOME MOVIE 2013
Director

A Quiet Island 2013
Director, Editor

Film Pilgrimage in Niigata: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2013
Actor

Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Spring 2012
Director

Film Workshop In OSAKA - Winter 2012
Director

Cat Dream 2012
Director

Association Of Silverpencils 8mm Film Workshop 2012
Director

Tanzan session 2012
Director

WELCOME TO LEVEL5 2012
Director

a dog at SANGENJAYA 2012
Director

Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer 2012
Director

Light Spends Life 2012
Director

Nostalghia Nostalghia 2012
Director

RULEBOOK of the END 2012
Director
- Screening For Old Men
Screening For Old Men 2011
Director

Radioactive Boy 2011
Director

Golden Era: Newclear Exposed 2011
Director

Quiet Ghost 2011
Director

EDGE CUTTERS 2011
Director

Associations of Silverpencils 2011
Actor, Director

EDGE CUTTERS 2010
Director

Lantern Sight 2010
Director

SHOUT at DAWN 2010
Director

AFTERIMAGE OF SUMMER 2010
Director

Silver Pencils 2010
Director

UFO Flying Course 2010
Director

Blue Nostalgia 2010
Director

Buchou to UFO-gokko 2010
Actor

EDGE CUTTERS 2010
Director

MISS JUPITER & MR CLITORIS 2010
Actor

Coming Future 2010
Actor

A Chinese Fisherman 2010
Actor

Furuyashiki Village Freeloader 2009
Director

REHEARSAL of WIZARD 2009
Director

DOC for DOCs 2009
Director

Chromemile 2009
Director

Cinediary March 2009
Director

Cinediary February 2009
Director

Cinediary May 2009
Director

Field Feet 2008
Director

VIDA 2008
Actor, Director

Crazy Exposure 2007
Director

REHEARSAL of WIZARD 2007
Director

SILVERROSE 2007
Director

RAPE BOY 2007
Director

YAMATO LIVE 2007
Director

FUJICABLUEを目指 2007
Director

Cold Fish 2007
Director

FUJICABLUE 2007
Director

Earthmile 2007
Director

KODABLOOD 2007
Director

REHEARSAL of WIZARD 2007
Director

FUJICABLUE 孤独な映画 2007
Director

Real Access Discommunication 2007
Cinematography

EKTADREAM 2007
Director

A Pink Sledge 2006
Director

Mashroom Dream 2006
Director

Maron Fairy 2006
Director

Grass Hole 2006
Director

An Acidbrown 2006
Director

Zeiss The Last Chapter of Broadcast 2006
Director

Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage 2006
Actor

FUJICABLUEを目指 2005
Director

Electronic Pinokio 2005
Director

Electric Pinokio (Short Version) 2005
Director

Snow Spot 2005
Director

Garden Green 2005
Director

MAKING OF SHIROYASHA 2004
Actor, Director

PORNOGRIFFITH 2004
Director

PRAGUE 2003
Actor, Director

Ode to Beauty 2003
Director

My Little Sister And Bruckner 2003
Cinematography

Sesami Spirit 2003
Director

肉食獣 HAM 2002
Director

FLAHERTY SEMINAR 2002 2002
Director

F.F.F. (Short Version) 2002
Director

F.F.F. 2002
Director

F.F.F. UNCUT 2002
Director

Book of Genesis 2002
Director

DYNASTY 6B 2001
Director

Midori 2001
Cinematography

East End 2001
Director

NOTHING GOSE 2000
Director

Out of Frame (Short Version) 2000
Actor, Director, Screenplay

Foulplay, Colored Strowberry, On Air 2000
Director

EKTADIARY: NIGHT COLOURS 2000
Director

Northern Lights 1999
Director

Northern Lights (Short Version) 1999
Director

A Burning Star 1999
Director

A Burning Star (Short Version) 1999
Director

KE/FA: Fake Sister 1999
Cinematography

TAKAHIKO TAKAYANAGI 1998
Director

車窓 -WINDOW- 1998
Director

THRASHGIRLS 1998
Director

KU MI KO 1998
Director

Footsteps 1998
Director

Atlantic Fog Area et 1998
Director

Road Runner 1998
Director

Ecrips of Hunting (Short Version) 1998
Director

Morning High 1998
Director

KU MI KO #2 1998
Director

Rabbit Hunting 1998
Director

Alley Child 1998
Director

Hardcandy 1998
Actor, Director

Bourbon Time 1997
Director

The Air-Conditioning System 1997
Director

TRIANGLE⊿SLANT 1997
Producer, Director

s-cam 1997
Director

SMOKING HIGH 1997
Director

Night of Orley 1997
Director

The Mirage, The Horizon (Short Version) 1997
Director

The Mirage, The Horizon 1997
Director

Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version) 1997
Actor, Director

Zetcho: The Acme 1997
Actor, Director

功夫 GIRL 1997
Director

V-GST from The Air-Conditioning System 1997
Director

Sketch of Kanahama: Suicide Training — Reel 4 1997
Director

Suicide Rehearsal 1997
Director

Sketch of Kanahama: What Comes Next... 1997
Director

Sketch of KANAHAMA MakeUp#2 1997
Director

START! 1997
Director

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE CAMERA #4 1997
Director

WINTER SQUARE 1997
Director

WALL 1997
Director

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE CAMERA #1 1997
Director

SWEAT OF FLOOR 1997
Director

SUICIDE BOX 1997
Director

BACON 1997
Director

BRUCE 1997
Director

Blue Max 1997
Actor, Director

The Memory of Celluloid (Revised Version) 1996
Director

Light of Darkness (Summer Sketch) 1996
Director

View 1996
Director

The World of Kaoru Tachibana 1996
Director

MY SIGHT -VANCOUVER編- 1996
Director

Cassiopeia Land 1996
Director

Ecrips of Hunting 1996
Director

SHOUT at DAWN 1996
Director

Light Of Darkness 1996
Director

N 1996
Director

Organ 1996
Assistant Editor

The Lightning Train 1996
Director

The Aquarium City (Short Version) 1996
Actor, Director

The Underground Water (Short Version) 1996
Actor, Director

Light Point 1996
Director

Out of Frame 1996
Actor, Director, Screenplay

The Underground Water 1996
Actor, Director

The Aquarium City 1996
Actor, Director

CAT & CURTAIN 1995
Director

Squareworld 1995
Actor, Director

Squareworld (Short Version) 1995
Actor, Director

Suburban Midnight Serial Murder Case (Prologue) 1995
Director
- ILLUSION MAP
ILLUSION MAP 1995
Director

STORNS 1995
Director

SMILE FILM 1995
Director

Canvas (Short Version) 1995
Director

Afterimage Of Summer: My Grandpa 1995
Director

Midnight Symphony 1995
Director

Midnight Train 1995
Director

HORAIZON 1995
Director

SONG 1995
Director

Sketch of Kanahama, the Repair Worker 1995
Actor, Director

Canvas (Mid-lenght Version) 1994
Director

SWEET VOICE 1994
Director

Afterimage Of Summer: My Grandpa (Short Version) 1994
Director

In the Shadow of a Tree 1994
Director

Sorrowful Summer 1994
Director

Summertime Landscape 1994
Director

Cat Position 1994
Director

LONELY FIGURE RAILWAY 1994
Director

Let's Go to Yosuke Okawado's House 1994
Director

Summertime Landscape Express 1994
Director

Celluloid Memory 1993
Director

BURN 1993
Director
- Kareki no uta o kiku mono nashi
Kareki no uta o kiku mono nashi 1993
Director

First Anniversary 1993
Director

Film Passion '93 1993
Director

Nightshift 1993
Director

Afterimage Of Summer 1993
Director

Curtain 1993
Director

Canvas 1993
Director

WINTER SPOT 1992
Director

WHITE 1992
Director

SOUL ICN 1992
Director

DEEP SKY Part II 1992
Director

DEEP SKY 1992
Director

Yu-so 1992
Director

SHADOW FOREST 1991
Director

DEEP-SEA FISH 1991
Director

WAVE 1991
Director

Garden 1991
Director

Meet The Forest Demon 1991
Director

Santokei 1991
Director

BLOW WIND 1990
Director

Mt. Buko 1979
Cinematography
Credits from TMDB.