Sion Sono — Director (40)
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Father's Day (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Antonio Capuano … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
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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The Forest of Love: Deep Cut (2020) [TV] IMDb TMDB
愛なき森で叫べ : Deep Cut
director: Sion Sono actor: Kippei Shiina / Shinnosuke Mitsushima …
other title: The Forest of Love : Deep Cut / El Bosque Sangriento …
Nothing's as it seems when a charismatic conman and an aspiring film crew delve into the lives of two emotionally scarred women.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) [Movie] TMDB
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
うつしみ
director: Sion Sono actor: Yukiko Sawada / Nobuyoshi Araki …
other title: うつしみ
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
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Hazard (2005) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb 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) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
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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Bicycle Sighs (1990) [Movie] TMDB
自転車吐息
director: Sion Sono actor: Sion Sono / Masahiro Sugiyama …
other title: 自転車吐息
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.