Sion Sono — Playwright (33)
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Red Blade (2018)
レッド・ブレイド IMDb TMDB
Takahiro Ishihara actor: Yuka Ogura / Kanon Hanakage …
other title: レッド・ブレイド
Living a troubled home-life, a teenager becomes so stressed out with everything around her that she disappears into a series of fantasy-related books. While trying to escape her situation, she soon finds herself living in feudal Japan with a ninja master and his students who inform her that she's in a separate dimension from her regular life and are to help train together in the way of the ninja. When the training's complete, the girls learn that an evil warlord that left them orphans has intentions on killing them all as well, forcing the girls to team up together with all their training to defeat the madman and live in peace again.
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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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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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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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Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)
狂武蔵 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
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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性戏达人：女体壶探秘 (2000)
性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり NeoDB
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
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
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)
決戦！女子寮対男子寮 IMDb TMDB
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)
俺は園子温だ IMDb TMDB
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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Into a Dream (2005)
夢の中へ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sion Sono actor: Tetsushi Tanaka / Yûna Natsuo …
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.
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Tokyo Tribe (2014)
トウキョウ トライブ IMDb TMDB
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.