Kenji Murakami

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 cassette tape is mixed and played back at the time of screening. Sometimes a projectionist calls on the audience. This is a ritual that transforms the original shape and brings the dismantled "movie" back to the theater. (Kenji Murakami)

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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 to emerge.

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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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NONFIX: The End of Film! The Future of Cinema is Transformed by Digital! Hokkaido Sex museum! Film by Kenji Murakami.

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8mm short by Kenji Murakami.

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Aiko and Hashimoto discovere a VHS videotape called "A Guide to Surviving Zombies From". This is a video with a set of instructions that will help them cope with the invasion of the undead living in Japan.

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The documentary version of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" titled "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!" series. "Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen" takes viewers inside a haunted place in Okinawa that still bears the scars of the Pacific War!

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The documentary version of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" titled "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!" series. "Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen" takes viewers into the magical mountains of Tanigawa-dake, where the largest number of people have been lost in Japan, and into the sea of trees at Mt.

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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 reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

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Two tales of phenomena: In the ruins of Chiba prefecture, a video of a woman sobbing in the middle of the night and a bizarre video recording left by a mountaineer who went missing three years prior.

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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.

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The cow woman is believed to be the sign of a huge catastrophe that is about to occur. It is said that she dies when the catastrophe is over. In some regions, the cow woman is worshiped as a prophet who warns of future misfortune. Asuka, who has joined a training camp, decides to head off to the site of an unsolved murder together with her four classmates. It is there that they find an isolated house where they manage to be let in by making up an excuse. However, once inside.

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A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.

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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.

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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 includes all 10 episodes.

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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", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

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The second of two shorts detailing the further adventures of the Yokai.

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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...

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The first of two shorts detailing the further adventures of the Yokai.

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Based on the best-selling collection of true ghost stories "Shin Mimibukuro," and produced by masters and rising directors of the horror genre, including Norio Tsuruta of "Ring 0," Takashi Shimizu of "Ju-on," and Yô Takahashi, the screenwriter of "Ring," the latest and fourth series of the popular "Japanese Horror" series "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" is here. The directors include the TBS drama genius Akio Yoshida of "Kamaitachi no Yoru," the highly acclaimed newcomer Keisuke Toyoshima of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Gekijouban" and "Kaiki Daikazoku," Kenji Murakami of the "Jurei" series, Masaya Kakei, whose "Bijokan" was highly praised at international film festivals, and the active film director Hirono Yamada. The main cast features Mei Kurokawa from "Mondai no Nai Watashitachi" and the popular BS-i drama "Keitai Keiji." Other notable cast members include Nana Eikura and Masahiro Toda of "Cure."

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Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force.

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The victims' grievous resentment is still unquenched! A horror of fear and shivers! After you finish watching the drama, more shivering images will hit you! Five bizarre tales that invite you into a world of horror.

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The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.

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Fifth installment of Deka Matsuri omnibus series. Six films

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While hospitalized for appendicitis, Ichiko notices a strange girl in her room one night. Night after night, the girl returns, getting closer to her bed, while Ichiko’s condition worsens. Suspicious, her classmate Masami investigates and uncovers a dark secret hidden within the hospital.

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In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is still to be born. With time on his hands and no one to talk to, the filmmaker finds the phone number for a telephone date club, and calls up with an earnest de- sire: I'd like to talk to a girl. While following the conventions of film-diary form, at some point the filmmaker falls into a times pace tunnel of false memory.

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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

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‎The film heritage of Yukiyasu Shimada.

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Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival).

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The documentary version of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" titled "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!" series. "Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen" takes viewers inside a haunted place in Okinawa that still bears the scars of the Pacific War!

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The documentary version of "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" titled "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!" series. "Gekijō-ban Kantō-hen" takes viewers into the magical mountains of Tanigawa-dake, where the largest number of people have been lost in Japan, and into the sea of trees at Mt.

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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 reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

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Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2009, 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... By far the most interesting sequence is with Kenji Onishi (“A Burning Star”). Wielding a super-8 camera, Onishi documents his own interview, taking random shots of street-life and buildings. He leavens his monologue with statements bordering between cliché and outré. “A movie that aims to make a message is boring.”

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The second of two shorts detailing the further adventures of the Yokai.

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The first of two shorts detailing the further adventures of the Yokai.

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In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is still to be born. With time on his hands and no one to talk to, the filmmaker finds the phone number for a telephone date club, and calls up with an earnest de- sire: I'd like to talk to a girl. While following the conventions of film-diary form, at some point the filmmaker falls into a times pace tunnel of false memory.

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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 smoking a cigarette. Windows and doors are preparing the framing. The wind is coming up. Will it rain today? A young woman is pressing her face to a TV screen, all in blue but it is not water refreshing her. In her eyes, you see some hidden memories and dirty tennis balls lying on the street sucking up the drops of the rain.

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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 smoking a cigarette. Windows and doors are preparing the framing. The wind is coming up. Will it rain today? A young woman is pressing her face to a TV screen, all in blue but it is not water refreshing her. In her eyes, you see some hidden memories and dirty tennis balls lying on the street sucking up the drops of the rain.

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