Sion Sono
Birthday: 1961-12-18
Place of Birth: Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Biography: Sion Sono (園 子温 Sono Shion, born December 18, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, author and poet. Best known on the festival circuit for the film Love Exposure (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today".
Movies
Tokyo Gore Police
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while ...
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Heaven's Trumpet
8mm film by Sho Fujiwara. A black-and-white cinemasco movie starring Sion Sono. It's a work that has...
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The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table....
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Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love....
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HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard...
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Love Song
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggle...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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Bicycle Sighs
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspap...
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Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
About a pottery workshop run by Ms. Namie. Her students want to become as skilled as her, and she te...
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Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
A world-class marathon becomes the catalyst of clashes between the guests of a women’s and a men’s d...
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BAD FILM
Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chine...
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The Sion Sono
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work be...
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Love
A young man dressed as a samurai walks along a road lined with flowering cherry trees. Then, no long...
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A Man's Flower Road
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and...
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Happiness Avenue
When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughi...
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Making of Love Exposure
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure"....
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I Am Sono Sion!
Sono's first film, 30 minutes long and shot on 8mm. A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in wh...
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Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given...
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysteri...
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Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Hitomi ran down to a local city with her affair partner Suzuki. Daisuke, a regular customer of the s...
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I Hate You... Not
Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script /...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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Reflect On That Boys
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man....
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 6...
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Himiko-san
A unique youth group drama set in a deserted local city in the 1980s, depicting the fate of a myster...
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day,...
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Virtual Love
Nana (Jun Natsukawa) and her colleague Mei (Moe Yoshizawa) spend time in a virtual world with a man ...
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