Sion Sono — Playwright (23)
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Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020) WikiData IMDb TMDB
狂武蔵
director: Yuji Shimomura actor: Tak Sakaguchi / Kento Yamazaki …
other title: Samouraï fou / Miyamoto Musashi y los 400 samuráis …
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
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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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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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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 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.
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Tokyo Tribe (2014) IMDb TMDB
トウキョウ トライブ
director: Sion Sono actor: Ryohei Suzuki / Young Dais …
other title: トウキョウ トライブ / 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.
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Guilty of Romance (2011)
恋の罪
director: Sion Sono actor: Makoto Togashi / Megumi Kagurazaka …
other title: El Romance y la Culpa / 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.
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Love & Peace (2015)
ラブ＆ピース
director: Sion Sono actor: Hiroki Hasegawa / Kumiko Aso …
other title: Love and Peace / 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.
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Antiporno (2017)
アンチポルノ
director: Sion Sono actor: Dai Hasegawa / Ami Tomite …
other title: Anti-Porno / 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.
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Tag (2015)
リアル鬼ごっこ
director: Sion Sono actor: Reina Triendl / Mariko Shinoda …
other title: Real Oni Gokko - Tag / Tag - A High School Splatter Film …
Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incidents set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.
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Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
エクステ
director: Sion Sono actor: Chiaki Kuriyama / Ren Osugi …
other title: Exte / Ekusute (Exte: Hair Extensions) …
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.
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Cold Fish (2011)
冷たい熱帯魚
★ 7.3 (6 ratings) director: Sion Sono actor: Mitsuru Fukikoshi / Denden …
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.
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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
紀子の食卓
director: Sion Sono actor: Kazue Fukiishi / Tsugumi …
other title: Suicide Club 2 / La mesa de cena de Noriko …
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.