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".
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.
Release Date2013-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Episode Count6
Vote Count14
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.
Release Date2000-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Tetsuya
Vote Count17
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.
Release Date2013-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self (segment Sion Sono)
Vote Count19
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 customer is Mitsuru (ERIKU). Nana begins to fall in love with Mitsuru even though she knows she is virtual. But her litigation is a virtual world. Mitsuru in the real world was just a man.
Release Date2004-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Masao
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date2015-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Charactersd Cameo
Vote Count7
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult.
Release Date1987-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd The Man in the Red Coat
Vote Count4
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.
Release Date1988-11-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count4
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.
Release Date2006-07-01
Charactersd Golden Child (voice)
Vote Count1
The Making of Hazard
Release Date2005-03-03
Charactersd himself
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.
Release Date2012-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Shiro
Vote Count10
The Dream Man invited Ami to his party.
Release Date2018-04-21
Charactersd The Dream Man
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.
Release Date2012-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd self
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.
Release Date1990-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Shiro
Vote Count9
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.
Release Date2008-05-27
Charactersd Himself
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
Release Date1984-06-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Vote Count10
The Making of Antiporno
Release Date2016-03-02
Charactersd self
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.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count6
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.
Release Date2017-02-23
Charactersd The Dream Man
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date1985-12-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count12
Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love.
Release Date2004-03-03
Charactersd himself
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.
Release Date1989-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
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.
Release Date2021-10-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count10
A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu
Release Date2012-08-06
Charactersd Self
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.
Release Date2016-05-14
Charactersd Self
Vote Count8
Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe.
Release Date2015-06-15
Charactersd Self
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
Release Date2010-01-25
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard
Release Date2005-03-03
Charactersd Self
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.
Release Date1994-12-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count6
70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope".
Release Date2013-08-26
Charactersd Self
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
Release Date2006-01-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count10
A former special forces operative struggling to contain the destructive impulses of his past goes on a rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins.
Release Date2016-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count277
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Release Date2008-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count525
Manami suddenly encounters mass murder at a pub on her 22nd birthday as she is hunted down by two warring vampire clans, the Draculas and the Corvins. Manami is a child of prophecy who is meant to help the Draculas overcome their Corvin enemies who have driven them underground. Meanwhile, droves of young men and women are gathered at the Hotel Requiem by a Corvin named Yamada who informs them that the world is about to end, with this hotel being the only refuge.
Release Date2017-06-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count50
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt. A television miniseries extension of Sion Sono's 2008 tragicomedy.
Release Date2017-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count9
Nothing's as it seems when a charismatic conman and an aspiring film crew delve into the lives of two emotionally scarred women.
Release Date2020-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count27
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
Release Date2011-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count244
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Release Date2017-01-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count446
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.
Release Date2011-01-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count413
Shy high schooler Yoshirō and his friends mysteriously develop psychic powers, leading to chaotic and often erotic comedic situations as the virginal ESP teens try to understand their new gifts.
Release Date2015-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count70
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
Release Date2021-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count674
When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Release Date2001-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count576
As the sole survivor of a horrendous and rather mysterious accident, teenage Mitsuko's day is off to a bad start. An unstoppable force of nature, a doomed field trip, and a strange case of amnesia easily coexist in a bizarre parallel universe, where a desperate Mitsuko is always on the run from something inexplicable, intangible, and utterly deadly. However, amid piles of fresh corpses, mounds of scorching bullet shells, and rivulets of fragrant adolescent blood, Mitsuko must fight to stay alive, before her already messed-up day becomes even stranger. But one question still remains: who or what is the enemy?
Release Date2015-05-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count416
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
Release Date2020-08-21
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count69
A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Release Date2019-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count174
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro, joins forces with heavy-hitting gangster Buppa of Buppa Town. With Buppa's support, Merra aims to initiate a gang war between the Wu-Ronz and the Musashino Saru, and in a confrontation between the two attempts to kill Kai of the Musashino Saru. The inadvertent murder of Kai's friend Tera (a Musashino Saru member beloved by all Tribes since before their formation) leads to the joining of forces between all of the Tribes in an all-out war against Merra and Buppa.
Release Date2014-08-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count163
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
Release Date2012-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count177
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Release Date2013-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count326
No Pants Girls is a 3 segment film directed by Sono Sion, Shô Tsukikawa and Reiko Saito. They deal with girls discovering sexuality, through their innocent eyes. The actors and actresses are the same in the three films.
Release Date2004-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Release Date2005-12-24
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count214
Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for talent agency Burst in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district, recruiting young girls for the adult entertainment industry. In a business where money means everything, Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival scouts and the Yakuza.
Release Date2015-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count30
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Release Date2005-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count161
Release Date2015-08-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
An aspiring hairdresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby salons. The source is the corpse of a girl whose corpse continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, either driving the extension user insane or killing them.
Release Date2007-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count123
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Release Date2016-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
What was supposed to be a normal day, took a turn for the worse for Kishimoto. Sitting in a quiet cafe by himself, a mysterious girl, Rie, approaches him for a chat.
Release Date2010-07-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Drafted to shoot a new film, Tadashi Kobayashi, a director with festival marketability, is strong-armed by the studio into hiring two famous actresses as leads. The cast of self-unaware weirdos that constitute the budding players become increasingly overwhelmed and emboldened until they stage their own micro-revolution.
Release Date2020-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.
Release Date1993-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count19
A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
Release Date2015-06-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count52
Manami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.
Release Date2017-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Tatsuhiko relocates from Shinjuku to Yokohama, where he comes into conflict with Masaki Taki, CEO of the local scout company.
Release Date2017-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
Release Date2012-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count54
A feminine android delivers packages to scattered humans throughout the galaxy. With years to spare, the android and us have time to contemplate the meaning of being human.
Release Date2015-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count130
A feature film project about AMI, a Japanese dreamer who lost the ability to wake up.
Release Date2021-05-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The film is divided into two chapters, "First Love" and "Endless Love", in which the author, Yoko Oguchi, chases after a different man, each saying "I love you! and chases after another man. In the second chapter, she screams in public, has sex with a man, shaves her hair and gets (really) yelled at by her parents. Beyond the fictionality and perfection of the drama, the author's daring and daredevil performance have a strong impact on the viewer.
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Chen Duling as a young woman who must fight her way through a mysterious, holographic game world designed by her late father to avenge his death.
Release Date2018-11-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Web adaptation of All Esper Dayo! manga featuring an original story.
Release Date2015-08-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Living a troubled home-life, a teenager becomes so stressed out with everything around her that she disappears into a series of fantasy-related books. While trying to escape her situation, she soon finds herself living in feudal Japan with a ninja master and his students who inform her that she's in a separate dimension from her regular life and are to help train together in the way of the ninja. When the training's complete, the girls learn that an evil warlord that left them orphans has intentions on killing them all as well, forcing the girls to team up together with all their training to defeat the madman and live in peace again.
Release Date2018-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Mitsuko Murakami puts the passion to balloon in the hot-air balloon Circle "Airheads". The club gathered young people holding a variety of thoughts. But "Airheads" is disbanded not too long. Five years after their time in the Balloon Club ended, the members' former club leader brings them back together and rekindles old flames.
Release Date2006-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.
Release Date2005-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Release Date2009-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. A mysterious relationship develops between Utagui, a little girl who eats songs to live and an artist who can't sing anymore. A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. As they finally reach a beach in Okinawa, they find? Bastards come together on a night dancefloor for a show.
Release Date2018-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
While butoh master Akaji Maro is in rehearsal and fashion designer Shinichiro Arakawa prepares for the Paris collection, Sion begins a movie about a high school girl who falls in love... with a restaurant cook she's never even spoken to. Soon the artists' works come together in a race to help the girl's love.
Release Date2000-12-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo.
Release Date2009-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Low-profile theatre troupe actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey home, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Release Date2005-06-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
Release Date2020-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cancer and she becomes obsessed with the passage of time. And so, three weeks before her 22nd birthday, she decides to record this period of time in the most accurate way possible, regardless of how lonely or banal this record ends up being.
Release Date1997-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count20
You+Me=Love explores the many faces of Love through the eyes of four different characters powered by their own selfish desires. 'Ugly' was born without looks, or wits, but a near-invincible body and a big heart. When he falls in Love with 'Girl', he does everything he can to get her to love him back. In this film, you will find the stunning special effects of Gore Master Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police), and the cool action of Sakaguchi Tak's team of stuntmen (Versus, Death Trance).
Release Date2011-02-26
DepartmentProduction
JobCasting
Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.
Release Date2001-07-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
A wordless series of special situations involves a gay cop who encounters ambiguous, erotic games and sex between strangers.
Release Date1998-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
A girl living with her grandma in the countryside has a strange dream. When she goes to school the next day, she finds out everybody else had the same dream.
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
An omnibus drama directed by the genius Sion Sono. Popular idols such as Sakura Mizutani and Yoko Mitsuya will appear, and a fantastic and mysterious story will unfold. Includes Chapter 1 "Woman in the Viewfinder", Chapter 2 "No Memory Woman", Chapter 3 "Virtual Love", and Chapter 4 "Love Doctor".
Release Date2004-04-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Emi (Reimi Miyamori) aspires to be an actress, despite living in a rural town. In order to participate in an audition held in Tokyo, she pairs up with Hasegawa (Yuto Endo), who belonged to the same drama club as her in high school.
Release Date2022-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vagina And Virgin is more an experimental work from which you may have an idea how Sono thinks about the relationship of vagina and virgin.
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Lily (Aya Fujimoto) and Kiki (Mai Nakajima) of "Love Doctor", a work that fills the lonely and sad hearts of men in the world who have fallen ill with love. Lily took pride in her work and gave all the men energy and brilliance. However, Lily also had a gap in her mind.
Release Date2004-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A new and more contagious virus emerged after COVID-19 and forced Japan to live an even more severe self-restraint. During the time of COVID-19 it was necessary to maintain a social distance of 2 meters, with this new ferocious virus the distance had to be of at least 50 meters. Otomi was born inside his house and has never been outside. One day he hears a strange noise and leaves the house for the first time in his life.
Release Date2020-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Photographer Suga (Kenji Mizuhashi) aiming to win the photo contest and Lulu (Sakura Mizutani), a girl who works as a model. Two people who are drawn to each other while maintaining the relationship between the photographer and the model. One day, a mysterious woman, Sayoko (Yoko Kashiwagura), appears in the viewfinder of Suga. Eventually, Suga and Lulu win the long-awaited victory.
Release Date2003-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Two girls and their partners want to visit their father to celebrate Father's Day. However, instead of happy meeting, they will be forced to experience inexplicable things.
Release Date2003-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
DepartmentProduction
JobDirector of Operations
One day, when Mami (Yoko Mitsuya) wakes up in a strange room ... Beside her is a strange man, Yu (Ryosuke Watabe). Eventually Mami and Yu fell in love. Her younger sister Sato (Nahana) is worried about Mami who has lost contact. Sato consults with her boyfriend. However, Sato's boyfriend was Yu.
Release Date2004-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In this short film by Sion Sono, three school girls struggle to finish a homework assignment due to their blossoming desires. The child actors are swapped out for adults for the more risque moments.
Release Date2004-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Release Date2008-10-04
Vote Count377
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.
Release Date1986-01-01
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.
Release Date2001-06-24
Vote Count15
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.
Release Date2007-10-24
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
Release Date2006-08-12
The Making of Strange Circus
Release Date2005-06-09
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.
Release Date2007-06-23
Vote Count6
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.
Release Date1999-01-16
Vote Count2
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!
Release Date1994-01-01
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)
Release Date1991-03-02
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