Sion Sono
Also Known As: Shion Sono, 소노 시온, Takayuki Yamamoto
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".
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
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Tokyo Gore Police
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Heaven's Trumpet
Overview: 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!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
Overview: The Making of Strange Circus
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-09
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Making of Himizu
Overview: A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-06
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Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
Overview: Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-03
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Making of Hazard
Overview: The Making of Hazard
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-03
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Tokyo Gagaga
Overview: Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-03
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HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
Overview: An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-03
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Making of Antiporno
Overview: The Making of Antiporno
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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Love Song
Overview: Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-12
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Bicycle Sighs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-07
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Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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BAD FILM
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-17
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The Sion Sono
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-14
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Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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ami. exe
Overview: Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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A Man's Flower Road
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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Happiness Avenue
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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ami. exe・2nd atom
Overview: The Dream Man invited Ami to his party.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-21
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Making of Love Exposure
Overview: Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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I Am Sono Sion!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Teruo Ishii Fan Club
Overview: A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-12
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-24
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Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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I Hate You... Not
Overview: 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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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-02
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Damejin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Reflect On That Boys
Overview: The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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Making of Land of Hope
Overview: 70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-26
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Making of Tokyo Tribe
Overview: Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-15
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Overview: 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 the future of cinema.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Himiko-san
Overview: 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. Himiko, a girl who once left town, returns as a beautiful adult woman. Mukawa, a member of the baseball team who is practicing hard with the aim of participating in Koshien, meets Himiko by chance and is captivated by her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
Overview: 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 for his help. Yoshio Kamogawa loves Sae Asami. Yoshio Kamogawa goes to Tokyo and infiltrates the high school where Sae Aami attends. Yoshio Kamogawa then becomes involved in a strife between 3 different groups as he tries to save Sae Asami. Shizuka Tachibana also falls in love with Yoshio Kamogawa.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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