Sion Sono — Director (41)
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Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017) IMDb TMDB
東京ヴァンパイアホテル
director: Sion Sono actor: Kaho / Ami Tomite …
other title: 東京ヴァンパイアホテル
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.
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Father's Day (2003) IMDb TMDB
父の日
director: Sion Sono actor: Takuji Suzuki / Fumihiro Hayashi …
other title: 父の日
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.
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Love Song (1984) IMDb TMDB
ラブソング
director: Sion Sono actor: Sion Sono
other title: Love songs / Love Songs …
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
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Love (1986) IMDb TMDB
愛
director: Sion Sono actor: Sion Sono / Hiromi Kawanishi
other title: 愛
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.
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The Lonely 19:00 (2020) TMDB
孤独な19時
director: Sion Sono actor: Takumi Saitoh / Nakajo Saeko …
other title: 孤独な19時
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.
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) IMDb TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Pablo Larraín … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
other title: Venezia 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.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Prisoners of the Ghostland
director: Sion Sono actor: Nicolas Cage / Sofia Boutella …
other title: Les Prisonniers du Ghostland / Prisioneros de Ghostland …
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.
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性戏达人：女体壶探秘 (2000) NeoDB
性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり
director: Sion Sono actor: Yûya Ishikawa / Yû Kanzaki …
other title: 性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり
“白天做壶，晚上做爱” “晚上做壶，白天做爱”
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Utsushimi (2000)
うつしみ
director: Sion Sono actor: Yukiko Sawada / Nobuyoshi Araki …
other title: うつしみ / 现生现身
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.
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Hazard (2005)
HAZARD
director: Sion Sono actor: Joe Odagiri / Jai West …
other title: HAZARD
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.
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Shinjuku Swan II (2017) TMDB
新宿スワンⅡ
director: Sion Sono actor: Go Ayano / Tadanobu Asano …
other title: 新宿スワンⅡ
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
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Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm (1988) IMDb TMDB
決戦！女子寮対男子寮
director: Sion Sono actor: Hiromi Kawanishi / Sion Sono
other title: 決戦！女子寮対男子寮
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.
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I Am Sono Sion! (1985) TMDB
俺は園子温だ
director: Sion Sono actor: Sion Sono / Issei Ooka …
other title: 俺は園子温だ
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.
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The Land of Hope (2012) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
希望の国
director: Sion Sono actor: Isao Natsuyagi / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: 希望の国 / Håbets Land …
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.
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Strange Circus (2005)
奇妙なサーカス
director: Sion Sono actor: Rie Kuwana / Masumi Miyazaki …
other title: 奇妙なサーカス
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.
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The Virgin Psychics (2015) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
みんな！エスパーだよ！
director: Sion Sono actor: Shota Sometani / Elaiza Ikeda …
other title: みんな！エスパーだよ！ / 超能劲处男(港) …
After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.