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
2026
- The Homeless Billionaire ... (Director)
- Superplastic Deformation ... (Director)
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 ... (Story)
- Red Post on Escher Street ... (Director)
- State of Emergency ... (Director)
- The Lonely 19:00 ... (Director)
2019
- The Forest of Love ... (Director)
2018
- ami. exe・2nd atom as The Dream Man
- The Bastard and the Beautiful World ... (Director)
- Red Blade ... (Writer)
- Dream Breaker ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- Tokyo Vampire Hotel ... (Director)
- Love Exposure: The TV-Show ... (Director)
- Antiporno ... (Producer)
- 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 ... (Director)
- Tag ... (Director)
- Shinjuku Swan ... (Director)
- The Whispering Star ... (Director)
- Love & Peace ... (Director)
- Making of Tokyo Tribe as Self
- All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City as Cameo
- All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~ ... (Director)
2014
- Tokyo Tribe ... (Director)
2013
- Minna! ESPer Dayo!
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded as Self (segment Sion Sono)
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? ... (Director)
- Making of Land of Hope as Self
2012
- Himizu ... (Director)
- The Land of Hope ... (Writer)
- BAD FILM as Shiro
- Making of Himizu as Self
- Tokyo Gagaga as self
2011
- Cold Fish ... (Director)
- Guilty of Romance ... (Director)
- YOU+ME=LOVE ... (Casting)
2010
- Karma ... (Writer)
- Making of Love Exposure as Self
2009
- Make the Last Wish ... (Writer)
- Be Sure to Share ... (Director)
2008
- Love Exposure ... (Director)
- Tokyo Gore Police
- The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table as Himself
2007
2006
- Time Limit Investigator ... (Director)
- Teruo Ishii Fan Club
- Damejin as Golden Child (voice)
- Balloon Club Revisited ... (Director)
2005
- Strange Circus ... (Director)
- Noriko's Dinner Table ... (Director)
- Hazard ... (Director)
- Making of Hazard as himself
- Into a Dream ... (Director)
- Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
- HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono as Self
2004
- Virtual Love as Masao
- No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2 ... (Director)
- Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection ... (Screenplay)
- Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes as himself
- No Memory Woman ... (Director)
- Love Doctor ... (Director)
- When I Grow Up ... (Director)
2003
- Father's Day ... (Director)
- Woman in the Viewfinder ... (Director)
2001
- Suicide Club ... (Director)
- Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
- 0cm⁴ ... (Director)
2000
- Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body as Tetsuya
- Utsushimi ... (Director)
1998
- Wind ... (Director)
- Phallus: The Man ... (Director)
1997
- I Am Keiko ... (Director)
1995
- Vagina & Virgin ... (Director)
1994
1993
- The Room ... (Director)
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