Sion Sono — Director (41)
Movie
Be Sure to Share (2009)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Akira
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Eiji Okuda
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other title:
ちゃんと伝える
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Movie
The Room (1992)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Akaji Maro
/
Yoriko Doguchi
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other title:
部屋
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.
Movie
Into a Dream (2005)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Tetsushi Tanaka
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Yûna Natsuo
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other title:
夢の中へ
Low-profile theatre troupe actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey home, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Movie
Tokyo Tribe (2014)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Ryohei Suzuki
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Young Dais
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other title:
トウキョウ トライブ
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トーキョー・トライブ
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
Movie
Shinjuku Swan (2015)
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other title:
新宿天鹅
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新宿スワン
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Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.
Movie
The Whispering Star (2015)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Megumi Kagurazaka
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Kenji Endo
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other title:
ひそひそ星
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悄然之星
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A humanoid robot deliverywoman muses on the mystery of human nature as she drops off parcels around the galaxy.
Movie
Guilty of Romance (2011)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Makoto Togashi
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Megumi Kagurazaka
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other title:
El Romance y la Culpa
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恋の罪
In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.
Movie
Love & Peace (2015)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Hiroki Hasegawa
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Kumiko Aso
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other title:
Love and Peace
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ラブ＆ピース
A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
Movie
Antiporno (2017)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Dai Hasegawa
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Ami Tomite
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other title:
Anti-Porno
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アンチポルノ
Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
Movie
The Forest of Love (2019)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Kippei Shiina
/
Dai Hasegawa
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other title:
愛なき森で叫べ
A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
TV
Minna! ESPer Dayo! (2013)
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Sion Sono
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Kiminori Wakasugi
actor:
Shota Sometani
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Kaho
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other title:
みんな!エスパーだよ!
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Minna! Esper Dayo!
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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 for trivial reasons.
Movie
Tag (2015)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Reina Triendl
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Mariko Shinoda
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other title:
Real Oni Gokko - Tag
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Tag - A High School Splatter Film
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Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incidents set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.
Movie
Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
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other title:
Exte
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Ekusute (Exte: Hair Extensions)
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An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.
Movie
Cold Fish (2011)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
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Denden
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other title:
冷たい熱帯魚
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Movie
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Kazue Fukiishi
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Tsugumi
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other title:
Suicide Club 2
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La mesa de cena de Noriko
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A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Movie
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Jun Kunimura
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Shinichi Tsutsumi
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other title:
Why don't you play in hell
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¿Por qué no jugamos en el infierno?
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In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Movie
Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Sen Fujimaru
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Riku Kurokouchi
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other title:
Buzón rojo de la calle Escher
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エッシャー通りの赤いポスト
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A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?
Movie
Suicide Club (2001)
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Sion Sono
actor:
Ryo Ishibashi
/
Akaji Maro
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other title:
循环自杀
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自殺サークル
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When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
TV
Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
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other title:
東京ヴァンパイアホテル
Manami suddenly encounters mass murder at a pub on her 22nd birthday as she is hunted down by two warring vampire clans, the Draculas and the Corvins. Manami is a child of prophecy who is meant to help the Draculas overcome their Corvin enemies who have driven them underground. Meanwhile, droves of young men and women are gathered at the Hotel Requiem by a Corvin named Yamada who informs them that the world is about to end, with this hotel being the only refuge.