Sion Sono — Director (57)
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City (2015)
みんな！エスパーだよ！番外編　～エスパー、都へ行く～ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Shota Sometani / Erina Mano …
other title: Minna! Esupa Dayo! Bangaihen - Esupa, Miyako e Iku / みんな！エスパーだよ！番外編　～エスパー、都へ行く～ …
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. He goes to Tokyo and infiltrates Asami’s high school. He then becomes involved in gang fight as he tries to save her.
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Balloon Club Revisited (2006)
気球クラブ、その後 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Motoki Fukami / Yukie Kawamura …
other title: Balloon Club, Afterwards / 気球クラブ、その後
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.
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The Bastard and the Beautiful World (2018)
クソ野郎と美しき世界 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono / Kenji Yamauchi … actor: Tadanobu Asano / Shinnosuke Mitsushima …
other title: クソ野郎と美しき世界
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.
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Love Doctor (2004)
恋愛ドクター IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Aya Fujimoto
other title: 恋愛ドクター
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.
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No Memory Woman (2004)
ノーメモリーウーマン IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Yoko Mitsuya / Nahana
other title: ノーメモリーウーマン
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.
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Wind (1998)
風 IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Ai Sasaki / Yoko Azuma …
other title: 風
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.
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Woman in the Viewfinder (2003)
ファインダーの女 IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Kenji Mizuhashi / Sakura Mizutani
other title: ファインダーの女
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.
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When I Grow Up (2004)
大人になったら TMDB
Sion Sono
other title: 大人になったら
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.
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Madly (2016)
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Gael García Bernal / Mia Wasikowska … actor: Justina Bustos / Pablo Seijo …
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.
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Vagina & Virgin (1993)
ヴァギナ＆ヴァージン IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono
other title: ヴァギナ＆ヴァージン
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.
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Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
東京ヴァンパイアホテル IMDb TMDB
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)
父の日 IMDb TMDB
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)
ラブソング IMDb TMDB
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)
愛 IMDb TMDB
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.