Sion Sono — Playwright (18)
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Love Exposure (2009) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
愛のむきだし
6.9 (7 ratings) director: Sion Sono actor: Takahiro Nishijima / Hikari Mitsushima …
other title: Exposición de amor / 愛のむきだし
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
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Red Post on Escher Street (2020) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
エッシャー通りの赤いポスト
director: Sion Sono actor: Sen Fujimaru / Riku Kurokouchi …
other title: Buzón rojo de la calle Escher / エッシャー通りの赤いポスト …
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?
日本
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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
地獄でなぜ悪い
director: Sion Sono actor: Jun Kunimura / Shinichi Tsutsumi …
other title: Why don't you play in hell / ¿Por qué no jugamos en el infierno? …
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
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.
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Cold Fish (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
冷たい熱帯魚
7.6 (5 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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Exte: Hair Extensions (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
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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Tag (2015) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
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.
2015 园子温 日本
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Antiporno (2017) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
アンチポルノ
director: Sion Sono actor: Ami Tomite / Mariko Tsutsui …
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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Guilty of Romance (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
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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Tokyo Tribe (2014) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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The Virgin Psychics (2015) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
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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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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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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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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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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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.