Sion Sono

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Sion Sono
Born (1961-12-20) December 20, 1961
Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Occupation Poet, film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, film composer, actor
Spouse(s) Megumi Kagurazaka
Website
http://www.sonosion.com/

Sion Sono (園 子温 Sono Shion, born December 20, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, author and poet.


Feature filmmaker

After receiving a fellowship with the PIA, Sono made his first feature-length 16 mm film in 1990, Bicycle Sighs (Jitensha Toiki), a coming-of-age tale about two underachievers in the perfectionist Japan. Sono co-wrote, directed, and starred in the film.[1]

In 1992, Sono's second feature film The Room (Heya), also written by himself, was a bizarre tale about a serial killer looking for a room in a bleak, doomed Tokyo district. It participated at the Tokyo Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.[citation needed] The Room also toured on 49 festivals worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival.[2]

Current projects

In 2005 he wrote and directed Into a Dream (Yume no Naka e), which also released as a novel later on, and was a coming-of-age tale much in the style of his first film Bicycle Sighs, about the life of a theatre group member and his quest to find who he is. Few weeks after that, he released the Suicide Circle's second part, based on the Kanzenban novel. Noriko's Dinner Table was also directed and written by him, and was part of twelve film festivals worldwide. For this movie he worked with many first-time actors, and took the Suicide Circle story into a different level. For his efforts, he received a Don Quijote Award and a Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

At the end of 2005, Sion Sono also premiered a personal project with actors Issei Ishida and Masumi Miyazaki. Strange Circus (Kimyô na Sâkasu), directed, written, composed and cinematographed by Sono, took elements from the Grand Guignol theater and a story from the minds of both Masumi and Sono, filled with incest, sexual abuse, terrible family issues, extreme gore, and a twisted sense of reality.[3]

In 2008, he was the director and writer of Love Exposure. Love Exposure is the first film in Sono's "Hate" trilogy; the films Cold Fish, released in 2010, and Guilty of Romance, released in 2011, are also directed by Sono, are the second and third installments of the trilogy respectively.[4]

Recurring collaborators

Actor Suicide Circle Into a Dream Hazard Strange Circus Noriko's Dinner Table Exte Love Exposure Be Sure to Share Cold Fish Guilty of Romance Himizu Land of Hope Why Don't You Play In Hell?
DenDen NoN NoN NoN NoN
Mitsuru Fukikoshi NoN NoN NoN NoN
Fujiko NoN NoN
Tomoki Hasegawa NoN NoN NoN
Megumi Kagurazaka NoN NoN NoN NoN
Ken Mitsuishi NoN NoN NoN
Hikari Mitsushima NoN NoN NoN
Takahiro Nishijima NoN NoN
Yoshihiro Nishimura NoN NoN NoN NoN NoN NoN
Joe Odagiri NoN NoN
Tsugumi NoN NoN
Tetsushi Tanaka NoN NoN
Jai West NoN NoN

Filmography

  • Love Song (1984) Director
  • I Am Sion Sono!! (1985) Director, writer and actor
  • A Man's Hanamichi (1986) Director and writer
  • Ai (1986) Director and writer
  • Kessen! Joshiryo tai Danshiryo (1988) Director and writer
  • Bicycle Sighs (1991) Director, co-writer and actor
  • Heya: The Room (1992) Director and writer
  • I Hate You... Not (1992) Actor
  • Otaku (1992) Actor
  • Bad Film (1995) Director and writer
  • Keiko Desu Kedo (1997) Director and writer
  • Kaze (1998) Director and writer
  • Dankon: The Man (1998) Director and writer
  • Seigi no Tatsujin Nyotai Tsubo Saguri (1998) Director and writer
  • Utsushimi (1998) Director, writer and cinematographer
  • 0cm4 (1999) Director and writer
  • Blind Beast vs. Dwarf (2000) Actor
  • Father's Day (2001) Director
  • Suicide Club (2001) Director and writer
  • Chichi no Hi (2003) Director and writer
  • Otona ni Nattara (2004) Director and writer
  • Hazard (2005) Director and writer
  • Into a Dream (2005) Director and writer
  • Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) Director and writer
  • Strange Circus (2005) Director, writer, composer and cinematographer
  • Balloon Club, Afterwards (2006) Director and writer
  • Exte (2007) Director and writer
  • Love Exposure (2008) Director and writer
  • Be Sure to Share (2009) Director and writer
  • Cold Fish (2010) Director and co-writer
  • Guilty of Romance (2011) Director and writer
  • Himizu (2011) Director
  • The Land of Hope (2012) Director and writer
  • Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) Director and writer
  • Tokyo Tribes (2014) Director
  • ABC`s of Death 2 (2014) Director

Bibliography

  • Tokyo Gagaga (1993)
  • Furo de Yomu Gendai Shi Nyuumon (2000)
  • Jisatsu Saakuru: Kanzenban (2002)
  • Jikou Keisatsu (2002)
  • Yume no Naka e (2005)

Awards

Sono received the following awards for his films:

  • 2003: Fant-Asia Film Festival - Most Ground-Breaking Film and Fantasia Ground-Breaker Award (Suicide Club)
  • 2005: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Don Quijote Award and Special Mention (Noriko's Dinner Table)
  • 2006: Berlin International Film Festival - Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung" (Strange Circus)
  • 2007: Austin Fantastic Fest - Best Film (Exte)
  • 2009: Berlin International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize and Caligari Film Award (Love Exposure)
  • 2009: Fant-Asia Film Festival - Best Asian Film, Most Innovative Film and Special Jury Prize (Love Exposure)
  • 2010: Mainichi Film Concours - Best Director (Love Exposure)

Sono also received the following nominations for his films:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.madmuseum.org/events/bicycle-sighs-jitensha-toiki
  2. ↑ http://www.festivalscope.com/director/sono-sion
  3. ↑ "First Stills – Sion Sono's New Slasher Film: Coldfish". DreadCentral. 
  4. ↑ "'Suicide Club' Director Gets Behind Camera for 'Cold Fish'". BloodyDisgusting. 

External links

Films directed by Sion Sono
2000s
2010s
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