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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", [1] a " stakhanovist filmmaker" [2] [3] with an " idiosyncratic " career.
Sion Sono is a cult filmmaker known for his graphic and violent works, such as Love Exposure, Suicide Club and Cold Fish. He has also acted in some of his own films and written poetry and novels.
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- Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Sep 20, 2021 · Japanese director Sion Sono talks about his post-apocalyptic Western samurai odyssey with Nicolas Cage, who plays a bomb-strapped hero. He reveals his influences, his vision, and his challenges in making the film.
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- Love Exposure (2008) Clocking in at over four hours, “Love Exposure” is an epic tale of love, family, religion, and obsession. The story follows Yu Tsunoda, a young man raised in a devout Christian family, who becomes an expert in upskirt photography in a quest to sin and gain his father’s attention.
- Red Post on Escher Street (2020) “Red Post on Escher Street” offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of indie filmmaking. The narrative revolves around a passionate film director, Tadashi Kobayashi, as he holds auditions for his new film.
- Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?” is an energetic, chaotic ride into the world of filmmaking. A young, ambitious film crew named gets caught in the crossfire between two warring yakuza clans.
- Himizu (2011) Set during post-tsunami Japan, “Himizu” centers on two teenagers, Sumida and Keiko, who struggle with abusive and neglectful parents. While the tragedy of the natural disaster looms large, it’s the personal traumas that deeply impact these young souls.
- Why Don’t You Play In Hell? (2013) Two yakuza clans are at war with each other. The head of one family wants to make a movie starring Mitsuko, his hellraiser daughter.
- Hazard (2005) Shin is a Japanese university student who, feeling disconnected from his dreary life, runs away to New York City looking for “hazards.” After getting mugged, Shin links up with a pair of Japanese-American street punks named Lee and Takeda, and the band of friends commit crimes together, becoming hazards in their own right.
- Tokyo Tribe (2014) In an alternate version of Tokyo, heavily stylized factions run every district. On a night when the leader of a peace-loving gang is murdered, an all-out war breaks out that could destroy the very balance of the Tokyo Tribes.
- Tag (2015) Mitsuko (no, not that Mitsuko) is a teenage girl who strange things keep happening to. First, other girls around her start dying in gruesome ways and no one notices but her.
Feb 2, 2021 · The Japanese filmmaker talks about his English-language debut, a wild hybrid of Western, samurai, and thriller genres, starring Nicolas Cage. He reveals his influences, his heart attack, and his vision of "East meets West" cinema.
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Sion Sono. Director: Love Exposure. Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early 90s, in which he also starred. The...
