Sion Sono
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".
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.8191 |
| Birthday | 1961-12-18 |
| Place of Birth | Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shion Sono, 소노 시온, Takayuki Yamamoto, |
2008
Tokyo Gore Police
6.022/382
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cut...
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Tokyo Gore Police
1994
Heaven's Trumpet
0/0
8mm film by Sho Fujiwara. A black-and-white cinemasco movie starring Sion Sono. It's a work that has an underground and nostalgic odor. It gets shorte...
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Heaven's Trumpet
2008
The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.
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The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
2005
Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
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The Making of Strange Circus
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Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
2012
Making of Himizu
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A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu
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Making of Himizu
2004
Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
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Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love.
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Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
2005
Making of Hazard
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The Making of Hazard
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Making of Hazard
2012
Tokyo Gagaga
0/0
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.
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Tokyo Gagaga
2005
HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
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An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard
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HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
1984
Love Song
4.909/11
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
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Love Song
2007
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
6.8/6
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the d...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
1990
Bicycle Sighs
6/9
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they start...
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Bicycle Sighs
2000
Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
4.2/17
About a pottery workshop run by Ms. Namie. Her students want to become as skilled as her, and she teach them that the key to good pottery is love.
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Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
1988
Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
4/4
A world-class marathon becomes the catalyst of clashes between the guests of a women’s and a men’s dormitory. Armed with toy machineguns and pistols,...
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Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
2012
BAD FILM
7.3/10
Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and...
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BAD FILM
2016
The Sion Sono
6.4/8
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight i...
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The Sion Sono
1986
Love
3.333/6
A young man dressed as a samurai walks along a road lined with flowering cherry trees. Then, no longer in costume, he talks with the camerawoman who i...
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Love
2017
ami. exe
4/2
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.
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ami. exe
1987
A Man's Flower Road
4.25/4
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult.
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A Man's Flower Road
1986
Happiness Avenue
0/0
When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in th...
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Happiness Avenue
2018
ami. exe・2nd atom
0/0
The Dream Man invited Ami to his party.
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ami. exe・2nd atom
2010
Making of Love Exposure
7/1
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
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Making of Love Exposure
1985
I Am Sono Sion!
4.333/12
Sono's first film, 30 minutes long and shot on 8mm. A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist contemplates his life as he approac...
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I Am Sono Sion!
1994
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
5/6
A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given to selected otakus who express how interesting it...
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Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
2006
Teruo Ishii Fan Club
0/0
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
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Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2001
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
3.8/15
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Det...
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
1999
Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
2/2
Hitomi ran down to a local city with her affair partner Suzuki. Daisuke, a regular customer of the soba shop where she got to work, fell in love with...
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Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
1991
I Hate You... Not
9/1
Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script / director is Eiichi Uchida, a scenario writer for...
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I Hate You... Not
2006
Damejin
5/1
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When the...
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Damejin
1989
Reflect on That Boys
0/0
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.
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Reflect on That Boys
2013
Making of Land of Hope
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70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope".
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Making of Land of Hope
2015
Making of Tokyo Tribe
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Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe.
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Making of Tokyo Tribe
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
5.048/21
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t...
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2007
Himiko-san
0/0
A unique youth group drama set in a deserted local city in the 1980s, depicting the fate of a mysterious girl, Himiko, and the men surrounding her. Hi...
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Himiko-san
2015
All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
5.429/7
High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking f...
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
2004
Virtual Love
3/2
Nana (Jun Natsukawa) and her colleague Mei (Moe Yoshizawa) spend time in a virtual world with a man and sell their love memories. The next Nana custom...
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Virtual Love
2016
Making of Antiporno
5/1
The Making of Antiporno
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