Sion Sono
Born: 1961-12-18 in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sion Sono (園 子温 Sono Shion, born December 18, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, author and poet. Best known on the festival circuit for the film Love Exposure (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today".
Filmography
2022
- Possibly, Huh Huh ... (Writer)
2021
- Prisoners of the Ghostland ... (Director)
- Kinnikuman: The Lost Legend as Self
- AMI.exe ... (Producer)
2020
- The Forest of Love: Deep Cut ... (Director)
- Crazy Samurai Musashi ... (Writer)
- Red Post on Escher Street ... (Director)
- State of Emergency ... (Director)
- The Lonely 19:00 ... (Director)
2019
- The Forest of Love ... (Screenplay)
2018
- Dream Breaker ... (Executive Producer)
- The Bastard and the Beautiful World ... (Director)
- Red Blade ... (Writer)
- ami. exe・2nd atom as The Dream Man
2017
- Tokyo Vampire Hotel ... (Director)
- Antiporno ... (Producer)
- Love Exposure: The TV-Show ... (Director)
- Shinjuku Swan II ... (Director)
- Tokyo Vampire Hotel ... (Director)
- ami. exe as The Dream Man
2016
- RE:BORN ... (Screenplay)
- Madly ... (Director)
- The Sion Sono as Self
- Making of Antiporno as self
2015
- The Virgin Psychics ... (Screenplay)
- Tag ... (Screenplay)
- Shinjuku Swan ... (Director)
- Love & Peace ... (Writer)
- The Whispering Star ... (Director)
- All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City as Cameo
- All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~ ... (Director)
- みんな!エスパーだよ! ～欲望だらけのラブ・ウォーズ～ ... (Director)
- Making of Tokyo Tribe as Self
2014
- Tokyo Tribe ... (Director)
2013
- Minna! ESPer Dayo!
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? ... (Writer)
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded as Self (segment Sion Sono)
- Making of Land of Hope as Self
2012
- Himizu ... (Screenplay)
- The Land of Hope ... (Director)
- BAD FILM as Shiro
- Making of Himizu as Self
- Tokyo Gagaga as self
2011
- Cold Fish ... (Screenplay)
- Guilty of Romance ... (Director)
- YOU+ME=LOVE ... (Casting)
2010
- Making of Love Exposure as Self
- Karma ... (Writer)
2009
- Be Sure to Share ... (Director)
- Make the Last Wish ... (Writer)
2008
- Love Exposure ... (Writer)
- Tokyo Gore Police
- The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table as Himself
2007
2006
- Time Limit Investigator ... (Writer)
- Balloon Club Revisited ... (Writer)
- Damejin as Golden Child (voice)
- Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2005
- Noriko's Dinner Table ... (Writer)
- Strange Circus ... (Original Music Composer)
- Into a Dream ... (Director)
- Hazard ... (Director)
- Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
- Making of Hazard as himself
- HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono as Self
2004
- No Memory Woman ... (Director)
- No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2 ... (Director)
- Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection ... (Screenplay)
- Love Doctor ... (Director)
- When I Grow Up ... (Director)
- Virtual Love as Masao
- Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes as himself
2003
- Father's Day ... (Director)
- Woman in the Viewfinder ... (Director)
2001
- Suicide Club ... (Director)
- Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
- 0cm⁴ ... (Director)
2000
- Utsushimi ... (Writer)
- Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body as Tetsuya
1998
- Phallus: The Man ... (Director)
- Wind ... (Director)
1997
- I Am Keiko ... (Director)
1995
- Vagina & Virgin ... (Director)
1994
1992
- The Room ... (Writer)
1991
1990
- Bicycle Sighs as Shiro
1989
1988
- ENDLESS LOVE ... (Director of Photography)
- Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
1987
- A Man's Flower Road as The Man in the Red Coat
1986
1985
- I Am Sono Sion! as Himself