Onohana

Onohana

History

Recipient of the 2014 Oufuji Noburou Award at the Mainichi Film Awards for her work "Yodomi no Sakagi".

Profile

Onohana

Movies

Iizuna Fair
Animation
In the midst of the frenzy night a man finds himself lost in the crevasse of time. It was not the grotesque beings nor the monsters, but it was he who “was here, but wasn't here”. He was the phantom. Buried under memories full of inhibition and promises that never kept – words washed up on the shore – time keeps him at a distance from the “place”. And he hears poems coming on the waves from the other side rhyming and lapping against the shore. A 360° scope video Installation commissioned by Nagano Art Museum.
In a Mere Metamorphosis
Director
Featuring stirring imagery cycling through abstraction and quivering permanence, Onohana’s (Ouch, Chou Chou and such a good place to die, JC 2016) characteristically stunning animation was produced in collaboration with visitors to her past exhibitions in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Morioka, Tohoku, tracing her original illustrations. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Tokyo
Director
A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.
Ouch, Chou Chou
Animation
A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.
Ouch, Chou Chou
Art Direction
A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.
Ouch, Chou Chou
Writer
A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.
Ouch, Chou Chou
Director
A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.
such a good place to die
Director
Forms shift like a landscape of memory in this enchanting work featuring music by Tatsuki Tsushima. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Age of Obscure
Director
A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.
Crazy Little Thing
Director
The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.
Origami of Landscape
Animation
An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.
Origami of Landscape
Director
An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.
Do As the Fish Tells You
Director
I want to leave home,” a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to ‘keep his promise,’ as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.