Cast: Kenji Onishi

Direction Kenji Onishi

Cast Kenji Onishi · Natsuyo Kanahama

Plot 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. We learn...

Direction Kenji Onishi

Cast Kenji Onishi · Natsuyo Kanahama · Yukiyasu Shimada · Suzuki Takuji

Plot Out of Frame (1998) 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,...

Direction Kenji Onishi

Cast Kenji Onishi · Fumiko Miyake

Plot 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,...