Sion Sono

Sion Sono

Born: December 18, 1961
in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
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 for Sion Sono...

Title: Kinnikuman The Lost Legend
Character: Himself
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: TV
In November, 2019, the planning and production of the live action version of the national hero manga "Kinnikuman", directed by Sono Sion, was in progress. "Kinnikuman" was said to be impossible to adapt but it's now said that it will be a great project. Maeda Gordon, while training at the gym, is contacted by the producer of "Kinnikuman", asking him to appear in the movie. However, there's a hidden past attached to this film and the actor begins looking into the mystery.
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ami. exe・2nd atom
Title: ami. exe・2nd atom
Character: The Dream Man
Released: April 21, 2018
Type: Movie
The Dream Man invited Ami to his party.
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ami. exe
Title: ami. exe
Character: The Dream Man
Released: February 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.
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The Sion Sono
Title: The Sion Sono
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight into the man, the poet, the painter, the scriptwriter, the husband and the boy who will eventually grow up to be the Sion Sono. Lineage, history and the past meeting the present are themes in this film in which Oshima connects the dots in Sono's creative life by taking the camera to the site of his upbringing and following the production of his most recent film The Whispering Star.
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Making of Antiporno
Title: Making of Antiporno
Character: self
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The Making of Antiporno
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Title: Minna! ESPer Dayo!
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: TV
In Notsu, Oita Prefecture, there are many people with supernatural powers. High school student Yoshio Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) is one of them and can read other people's minds. Yoshio uses his powers for trivial reasons.
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BAD FILM
Title: BAD FILM
Character: Shiro
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: Movie
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 love runs wild.
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Making of Himizu
Title: Making of Himizu
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu
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Tokyo Gagaga
Title: Tokyo Gagaga
Character: self
Released: March 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.
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Making of Love Exposure
Title: Making of Love Exposure
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
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Tokyo Gore Police
Title: Tokyo Gore Police
Released: October 4, 2008
Type: Movie
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
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The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
Title: The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
Character: Himself
Released: May 27, 2008
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Title: The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Released: June 23, 2007
Type: Movie
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 dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
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Teruo Ishii Fan Club
Title: Teruo Ishii Fan Club
Released: August 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
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Damejin
Title: Damejin
Character: (voice)
Released: July 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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 they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.
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Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
Title: Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
Released: June 9, 2005
Type: Movie
The Making of Strange Circus
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Making of Hazard
Title: Making of Hazard
Character: himself
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: Movie
The Making of Hazard
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HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
Title: HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
Character: Self
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: Movie
An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard
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Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
Title: Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
Character: himself
Released: March 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love.
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Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer
Title: Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer
Released: June 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
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Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
Title: Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
Released: February 7, 2000
Type: Movie
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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Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Title: Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Released: January 16, 1999
Type: Movie
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 a bedridden wife, Sayoko, who looked a lot like her when she was young, and eventually regained her feelings of love for her wife. The relationship between Daisuke's son and his wife, Koichi, and Sanae has recently become jerky, and Sanae has finally left home. On the other hand, Hitomi is shocked to find out that Suzuki has a photo of his wife and children.
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Otaku
Title: Otaku
Character: Himself
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given to selected otakus who express how interesting it is to be an otaku as oppose to not being one at all. Along with various shots of various Japanese city landscapes and the inside of an average otaku home from rooms filled with videos, models, and the latest in technology.
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Heaven's Trumpet
Title: Heaven's Trumpet
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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 shorter with each screening. BUN-CHAN SEX!
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I Hate You... Not
Title: I Hate You... Not
Released: March 2, 1991
Type: Movie
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 "Eien no 1/2", and this is his debut as a director. Gen Takahashi is in charge of shooting. (8 mm)
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Bicycle Sighs
Title: Bicycle Sighs
Character: Shiro
Released: May 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they started, but Keita is not very enthusiastic.
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Reflect On That Boys
Title: Reflect On That Boys
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.
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Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
Title: Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
Released: November 30, 1988
Type: Movie
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, the young people challenge each other in a breathless race through the city streets. For one of the girls, the battle ends on the beach, where she watches an amazing event take place.
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A Man's Flower Road
Title: A Man's Flower Road
Released: June 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Shot in Super8 and divided in two parts, the film shows some moments from the life of a young university student, who lives with his family in a house in the outskirts.
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Happiness Avenue
Title: Happiness Avenue
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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 the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.
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Love
Title: Love
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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 is filming him, he writes a date and an hour (May 1, 1985, 10 a.m.) on a blackboard and then bursts out in rage at the fact that his girlfriend, Hiromi, has been missing for three days. A few moments of their love story are retraced, before returning to the gloomy desperation of the young man, who walks into the darkness of a night illuminated by neon signs and goes into a long monologue of love, directed at the girl.
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I Am Sono Sion!
Title: I Am Sono Sion!
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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 approaches his birthday.
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Love Song
Title: Love Song
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.