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Sion Sono
Born: 18th Dec 1961 Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Dept: Directing
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".
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 39
Film: 37 (95%)
Television: 2 (5%)
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Filmography
Oct 2021 (first aired)
In November, 2019, the planning and production of the live action version of the national hero manga "Kinnikuman", directed by Sono Sion, was in progr ... view
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Self (10 ep.)
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The Dream Man
2017
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo. ... view
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The Dream Man
Original title: 園子温という生きもの
2016
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 ... view
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Original title: みんな！エスパーだよ！番外編 ～エスパー、都へ行く～
2015
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 ... view
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Cameo
Original title: Venezia 70: Future Reloaded
2013
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 ... view
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Self (segment Sion Sono)
2013
70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope". ... view
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Self
Apr 2013 (first aired)
In Notsu, Oita Prefecture, there are many people with supernatural powers. High school student Yoshio Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) is one of them and can ... view
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Unknown/various (12 ep.)
2012
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 ... view
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Shiro
2012
A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu ... view
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Self
2012
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo. ... view
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self
Original title: 『愛のむきだし』メイキング
2010
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure". ... view
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Self
Original title: 東京残酷警察
2008
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 ... view
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2008
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table. ... view
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Himself
2007
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 ... view
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Original title: 図鑑に載ってない虫
2007
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 ... view
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Original title: 石井輝男 FAN CLUB
2006
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult". ... view
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Original title: ダメジン
2006
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 ... view
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Golden Child (voice)
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2005
An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard ... view
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Self
2004
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 ... view
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Masao
2004
Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love. ... view
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himself
Original title: 盲獣VS一寸法師
2001
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 ... view
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Original title: 性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり
2000
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. ... view
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Tetsuya
Original title: 好色夫婦 すすって欲しい
1999
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 ... view
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Original title: Otaku
1994
A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given to selected otakus who express how interesting it ... view
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Self
Original title: 天国平和ラッパ
1994
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 ... view
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Original title: きらい・じゃないよ
1991
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 ... view
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Original title: 自転車吐息
1990
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they sta ... view
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Shiro
Original title: 男のコたち反省しなさい
1989
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man. ... view
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Original title: 決戦！女子寮対男子寮
1988
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 pisto ... view
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Original title: 男の花道
1987
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult. ... view
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The Man in the Red Coat
Original title: 愛の街角2丁目3番地
1986
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 ... view
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Original title: 愛
1986
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 ... view
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Original title: 俺は園子温だ
1985
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 ... view
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Himself
Original title: ラブソング
1984
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up. ... view
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