The Chichibu (2021)
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... ...
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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.
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... ...
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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. Idom ...
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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. Idom ...
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Film by Kenji Onishi. With friends. Mr. Yamase as main character, Sasakubo and Shinojima. And the girls having a good time. The camera is all you need. Looking still at the Mt. Buko which is disappearing. ...
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Shooting began with pointing the camera at the sunset seen through the window at home, and continued until all the 8mm film I had was used up. The sound is recorded on a magnetic material coated on the film at the same time as shooting, and the sound on th ...
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I returned to 8mm home movies for this compilation film, shot during the final year of my grandmother's life, and, beginning with footage of her garden. It is a documentary about gradually vanishing equipment collapsing and deteriorating, and also a docume ...
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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 end it became like a "ghost diary". ...
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武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山, Bukō-san) in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. The summit of Mt. Buko was blown up in 1980. Three years before I was born. Shin Sasakubo grew up listening to blasts o ...
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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 Onish ...
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A film about Shin Sasakubo's childhood place Chichibu - home of Mt. Buko, known as the "mountain of the gods." It is the most important mountain in the local folk religion and serves as the sacred site of the Chichibu Shrine. This sacred mountain is blaste ...
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An alternative documentary to Shin Sasakubo's 'Chichibu Rest' made by Kenji Onishi, about Chichibu. ...
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With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU AVANT-GARDE art collective engages in expressive activities such as music, film, art, photography, writing, and ...
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With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU AVANT-GARDE art collective engages in expressive activities such as music, film, art, photography, writing, and ...
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Production and sale of Fujichrome RT200 sound film stock ended in 1999. It was the ultimate analogue technology allowing audio to be simultaneously recorded. As the director develops his film shot with expired RT200 stock, unique visuals and sounds begin t ...
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Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival). ...
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A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews. ...
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8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi. ...
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Planet +1 Osaka. Screening associations of Silverpencils. ...
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Tales from a Super 8 workshop in Sangenjaya. ...
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8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi. ...
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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 the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a ref ...
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A nostalgic summer festival. Revisiting some dark footage through the images of memory. As an afterimage, it appears like a ghost. ...
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An attempt to let one's identity emerge by piercing fragments of 8mm film shot over some 20 years. The filmmaker's muttering and breathing reverberate over a series of visual images that invoke the primitive pleasure of an image coming into focus. This is ...
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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 different language. ...
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A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges. ...
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Sound of rain. Storm. Fixed camera. Time-lapse of skies and clouds. A playful silhouette against the light. ...
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The films of Oguchi Yoko are extremely personal. In addition, Oguchi herself has a special personality that makes her films very special. She is an outspoken masochist and experiments in life and work with her sexual proclivities. She can get surprised abo ...
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Electronic Pinokio (2005) is playful again with its material (video) and the optical illusions you can produce and also provoke with it. But mainly it looks like a grainy shot from someone to close to a TV screen. Yellow, green, blue. pink, white, green. I ...
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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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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. ...
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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-ups, expectations and black inserts. ...
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8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan. ...
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A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking. ...
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A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends. ...
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A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends. ...
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Onishi's short Book Of Genesis (2002) shows us in an impressive way the connection between the sky and skylines, made of all that technical stuff human beings have created. We watch storms and lighting in a colourful composition, connected to your TV or ra ...
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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 the ...
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A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated. Maintaining a solid rhythm and perspective, this film highlights the meaning and importance of "viewing" and ...
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Depiction of the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated. ...
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8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi. ...
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Kenji Onishi films Takahiko Takayanagi, journalist of Yomiuri-paper, local TV. Ibaraki prefecture prefectural assembly member election. The barefoot election district. ...
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A psychological drama filmed when I was fond of Japanese detective stories. The monologue of a killer with a shovel inspired by real maniacs, from Tsutomu Miyazaki to Seito Sakekibara. It's part of my series of films that have dissected the cinema screen, ...
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A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and provokes the man. An unblemished composition of umblemished eroticism. Kenji Onishi's entry in the "Roji no k ...
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The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and skirts are put on the balcony for drying. The wind will carry everything away, just like the noise and music ...
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An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi. ...
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Kenji Onishi's 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside. ...
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Kenji Onishi's 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside. ...
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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, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of archite ...
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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, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of archite ...
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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 and her toes, brought together by the sound of a passing train. Her ears, her mouth, the wall and the doo ...
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An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room. ...
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A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops. ...
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Kaoru Tachibana's 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by Kenji Onishi and others. ...
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Filmed in Vancouver, time-lapse pictures of the view from the hotel in October. ...
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The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi. ...
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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 seri ...
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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 a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the ...
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A mess of time-lapse and bulb photography using Kodachrome 25 reversal film. ...
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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 on a window, raindrops, reflecting architecture and grey trees. Dry leaves, wooden floors and a young man ...
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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. Blue and grey are the most prominent colours, and a sky turning white while a young woman is using drugs and ...
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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. Blue and grey are the most prominent colours, and a sky turning white while a young woman is using drugs and ...
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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 and then showing them in explicit positions. You don't see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bod ...
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"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. It f ...
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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 disposes of her body. ...
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Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this work where used in that film and in "Aquarium City" (1996). The original concept of "Suburban Midnight Se ...
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A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. ...
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I filmed the sunrise on January the 1st, 1995. This short was originally meant to be a test roll for a feature film I was going to shoot. I really like its feverish yellow – and I then scratched onto it the title, "SONG". As it was a silent film, I dared ...
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A private film from the Nagoya era. Single-8 lens fetishism photographing Nozomi Horikawa. ...
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Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994. ...
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A recording of a girl (Nozomi Horikawa) playing with "Shironeko" on a sunny day. "Kuroneko" appears. A private cinema with kittens and trees swaying in the wind in the park in early summer. ...
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A super8 film sketch of a summer in Nagoya, at the beach with an independent film group. ...
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A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director visited again his grandmother's country , with a camera at hand. ...
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The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding while the sun is shining outside. You can smell the sea, hear the waves and your shoes will always be dirty fro ...
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A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts. ...
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An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who would want to see it? ...
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Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer. ...
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A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the camera. ...
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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 end it became like a "ghost diary". ...
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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 Onishi versions of Edge Cutters and altered. There were many versions of Edge Cutters and Kenji Onishi alte ...
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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 Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsuaki Ma ...
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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 intense... ...
Watch NowA behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004. ...
Watch NowA 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. ...
Watch NowA 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. ...
Watch NowZetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple's problems, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of archite ...
Watch NowZetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple's problems, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of archite ...
Watch NowBlue 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 and her toes, brought together by the sound of a passing train. Her ears, her mouth, the wall and the doo ...
Watch NowOut 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 a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the ...
Watch NowThe Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling on a window, raindrops, reflecting architecture and grey trees. Dry leaves, wooden floors and a young man ...
Watch NowIt 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 drugs and ...
Watch NowIt 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 drugs and ...
Watch NowThe Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling on a window, raindrops, reflecting architecture and grey trees. Dry leaves, wooden floors and a young man ...
Watch NowA 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 and then showing them in explicit positions. You don't see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bod ...
Watch NowSquareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. ...
Watch NowSquareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. ...
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