Kenji Murakami
Alldays Rising sun on the Second street (2008)
The movie's title is a play on the popular Always - Sunset on Third Street films and also deals with circumstances 1950's Tokyo, but focuses on the homosexual district of Shinjuku ni-chome. (more)
The movie's title is a play on the popular Always - Sunset on Third Street films and also deals with circumstances 1950's Tokyo, but focuses on the homosexual district of Shinjuku ni-chome. (more)
Sound Hunting (2013)
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 to emerge. (more)
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 to emerge. (more)
Saikin rettō (2009)
Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Volume 3, Part 2 (2007)
A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals. (more)
A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals. (more)
PRAGUE (2003)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Industry to cash ghosts (2017)
This work is a confession of the genre of video-through horror docs and its terminal situation. In a bleak location, the film expresses the resignation and apathy of young people (more)
This work is a confession of the genre of video-through horror docs and its terminal situation. In a bleak location, the film expresses the resignation and apathy of young people (more)
NONFIX (2012)
NONFIX: The End of Film! The Future of Cinema is Transformed by Digital! Hokkaido Sex museum! Film by Kenji Murakami. (more)
NONFIX: The End of Film! The Future of Cinema is Transformed by Digital! Hokkaido Sex museum! Film by Kenji Murakami. (more)
Associations of Silverpencils (2011)
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 reflection ... (more)
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 reflection ... (more)
Film workshop when there is no more FILM! (2013)
Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival). (more)
Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival). (more)
Phantasmagoria: A Collection of Images Sealed in Darkness (2006)
This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", ... (more)
This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", ... (more)
Natsu ni umareru (1998)
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he ... (more)
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he ... (more)
Coming Future (2010)
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 Matsue and ... (more)
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 Matsue and ... (more)
Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage (2006)
Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense... (more)
Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense... (more)
Look Behind! (2017)
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 the ... (more)
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 the ... (more)
Tales of Terror: New Ears Bag Final Night 2 (2006)
The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro,” includes the final series. It features notable actresses such as Mari Hoshino of “Sayonara Midori Chan” fame. It ... (more)
The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro,” includes the final series. It features notable actresses such as Mari Hoshino of “Sayonara Midori Chan” fame. It ... (more)
Tales of Terror: New Ears Bag Final Night 1 (2006)
This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes. (more)
This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes. (more)