Sion Sono

AKA: Shion Sono, 소노 시온, Takayuki Yamamoto
1.0397

1961-12-18

Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan

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".

Crew Roles

Strange Circus
Director
Strange Circus
Author
Strange Circus
Original Music Composer
ENDLESS LOVE
Director of Photography
Exte: Hair Extensions
Director
Suicide Club
Director
Suicide Club
Writer
Love Exposure
Director
Love Exposure
Writer
Noriko's Dinner Table
Director
Noriko's Dinner Table
Writer
Into a Dream
Director
Into a Dream
Writer
Exte: Hair Extensions
Screenplay
Cold Fish
Director
Cold Fish
Screenplay
Guilty of Romance
Director
Guilty of Romance
Writer
Hazard
Director
Be Sure to Share
Director
Be Sure to Share
Writer
Antiporno
Producer
Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection
Screenplay
Bicycle Sighs
Director
Bicycle Sighs
Writer
Himizu
Director
Himizu
Screenplay
The Room
Director
The Room
Writer
Utsushimi
Director
Utsushimi
Writer
I Am Sono Sion!
Director
The Land of Hope
Writer
The Land of Hope
Director
The Lonely 19:00
Director
No Memory Woman
Director
Woman in the Viewfinder
Director
Virtual Love
Director
Love Doctor
Director
Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection
Director
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Director
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Writer
I Am Keiko
Director
I Am Keiko
Writer
YOU+ME=LOVE
Casting
Karma
Writer
Karma
Executive Producer
Karma
Script Supervisor
BAD FILM
Director
Reflect On That Boys
Director
Dream Breaker
Executive Producer
AMI.exe
Producer
The Room
Editor
Tokyo Tribe
Director
When I Grow Up
Director
Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
Director
Love Song
Writer
Shinjuku Swan
Director
The Lonely 19:00
Writer
The Lonely 19:00
Editor
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
Balloon Club Revisited
Director
Balloon Club Revisited
Writer
Love Song
Director
0cm⁴
Director
Love & Peace
Director
Love & Peace
Writer
Tag
Director
Tag
Screenplay
Phallus: The Man
Director
Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
Director
Father's Day
Director
A Man's Flower Road
Director
The Virgin Psychics
Director
The Virgin Psychics
Screenplay
東京ガガガ
Director of Operations
The Whispering Star
Director
The Whispering Star
Writer
BAD FILM
Screenplay
Madly
Director
Love
Director
Tokyo Tribe
Screenplay
Wind
Director
Antiporno
Director
Vagina & Virgin
Director
Exte: Hair Extensions
Original Music Composer
All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
Director
All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
Teleplay
Antiporno
Screenplay
Shinjuku Swan II
Director
A Man's Flower Road
Editor
A Man's Flower Road
Writer
Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
Writer
All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
Director
The Bastard and the Beautiful World
Director
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Director
Madly
Screenplay
Madly
Story
Strange Circus
Writer
Crazy Samurai Musashi
Writer
Hazard
Screenplay
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Director
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Writer
0cm⁴
Writer
0cm⁴
Editor
I Am Keiko
Producer
I Am Keiko
Art Direction
I Am Keiko
Editor
Red Blade
Writer
The Forest of Love
Director
The Forest of Love
Screenplay
Make the Last Wish
Writer
No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
Director
No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
Screenplay
Make the Last Wish
Director
I Am Sono Sion!
Screenplay
I Am Sono Sion!
Producer
I Am Sono Sion!
Editor
The Forest of Love
Editor
Red Post on Escher Street
Director
Red Post on Escher Street
Writer
Red Post on Escher Street
Editor
Utsushimi
Camera Operator
Utsushimi
Editor
State of Emergency
Director
Wind
Writer
Possibly, Huh Huh
Writer
Tokyo Gagaga
Director
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Original Music Composer
RE:BORN
Screenplay
All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
Writer
Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
Screenplay
Phallus: The Man
Screenplay
BAD FILM
Editor
BAD FILM
Idea
BAD FILM
Story
BAD FILM
Writer
BAD FILM
Cinematography
BAD FILM
Director of Photography
BAD FILM
Producer
Director
Writer
Director
Editor
Screenplay
Director
Writer
Director
Writer
Director
Writer
Creator
Creator
Creator
Creator
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {39}

2008-10-04 5.962

Tokyo Gore Police

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. ...
Genre :Horror, Action, Science Fiction

1994-01-01 0

Heaven's Trumpet

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! ...
Genre :Drama

Himself

2008-05-27 0

The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table

A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table. ...
Genre :Documentary

2005-06-09 0

Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus

The Making of Strange Circus ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2012-08-06 0

Making of Himizu

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu ...
Genre :Documentary

himself

2004-03-03 0

Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes

Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love. ...
Genre :Documentary

himself

2005-03-03 0

Making of Hazard

The Making of Hazard ...
Genre :Documentary

self

2012-03-03 0

Tokyo Gagaga

Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2005-03-03 0

HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono

An interview with Sion Sono on his movie Hazard ...
Genre :Documentary

self

2016-03-02 0

Making of Antiporno

The Making of Antiporno ...
Genre :Documentary

1984-06-12 4.9

Love Song

Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up. ...
Genre :

2007-06-23 7

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

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 ...
Genre :Comedy

Shiro

1990-05-12 5.5

Bicycle Sighs

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. ...
Genre :Drama

Tetsuya

2000-02-07 3.9

Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

1988-11-30 4

Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm

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 breathl ...
Genre :Action

Shiro

2012-09-17 7.3

BAD FILM

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. ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Comedy

Self

2016-05-14 6.3

The Sion Sono

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 scriptwrit ...
Genre :Documentary

1986-01-01 3.333

Love

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 ...
Genre :

The Dream Man

2017-02-23 4

ami. exe

Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

The Man in the Red Coat

1987-06-03 4.25

A Man's Flower Road

A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult. ...
Genre :Drama

1986-01-01 0

Happiness Avenue

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 ...
Genre :

The Dream Man

2018-04-21 0

ami. exe・2nd atom

The Dream Man invited Ami to his party. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Self

2010-01-25 0

Making of Love Exposure

Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure". ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

1985-01-01 4.333

I Am Sono Sion!

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. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1994-12-01 4.4

Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire

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 a ...
Genre :Documentary

2006-08-12 0

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult". ...
Genre :Documentary

2001-06-24 3.429

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf

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. ...
Genre :Horror

1999-01-16 2

Horny Couple: Wants to Sip

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 he ...
Genre :

1991-03-02 0

I Hate You... Not

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 ...
Genre :

Golden Child (voice)

2006-07-01 5

Damejin

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' the ...
Genre :Comedy

1989-03-01 0

Reflect On That Boys

The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2013-08-26 0

Making of Land of Hope

70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope". ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2015-06-15 0

Making of Tokyo Tribe

Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe. ...
Genre :Documentary

2013-08-28 5.2

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

2007-10-24 0

Himiko-san

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 beau ...
Genre :

Cameo

2015-04-03 5.5

All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City

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. Yosh ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Mystery

Masao

2004-04-23 3

Virtual Love

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Himself

2021-10-08 0

Kinnikuman: The Lost Legend

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 ada ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy

2013-04-12 4.7

Minna! ESPer Dayo!

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure