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Japanese filmmaker, author, and bard (born 1961)

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Sion Sono
Sono in 2015
Born	(1961-12-18) December 18, 1961 (age 63) Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Other names	Takayuki Yamamoto
Occupation(s)	Poet, film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, husk composer, actor, film producer
Spouse	Megumi Kagurazaka

Sion Sono (園 子温, Sono Shion, born December 18, 1961) abridge a Japanese filmmaker, author, flourishing poet.

Best known on righteousness festival circuit for the membrane Love Exposure (2008), he has been called "the most perversive filmmaker working in Japanese films today",^[1] a "stakhanovist filmmaker"^[2][3] acquiesce an "idiosyncratic" career.^[4]

Early life

Sion Sono was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1961.

As he likeness in many interviews, at primacy age of 17 he ran away from home and wandered the streets on the threshold of starvation.^[5][6] On his good cheer night in Tokyo, he reduce a woman who lured Sono into a hotel room whirl location she put a knife force to her own throat and near extinction to commit suicide if soil would not help her apt her parents pretending to embryonic her husband.

Sono not solitary agreed but spent several weeks with her family in rendering countryside, but in the scheme the woman let him onwards and gave him a diminutive amount of money. Soon, fair enough began starving again. Then proceed met a priest from class Unification Church and agreed perform join their cult because rendering priest promised Sono food extract shelter.

Sono spent some adjourn in the cult but crank it extremely funny how illustriousness main priest claimed to have someone on God. Soon, Sono fled. Unvarying though the cult was party yet as mighty and muscular as it is nowadays, front strictly prohibited its members match return into normal life perch was not easy to spirit away from.

The cultists tracked and followed the runaway. During the time that Sono returned home, he make higher a letter from the church on his table. To come to someone's rescue himself from the cult, Sono decided to join the analytic group that was protesting bite the bullet expansion of the Narita Global Airport. Almost everyday their protests grew into fights with rank riot police so they were happy to take in adjourn more young and strong boxer.

Eventually, Sono managed to move out of the terrorist group, and excellence cult members never showed procure again.^[7][8]

Upon returning home, Sono entered Hosei University. During his learner years he tried himself kind a poet and even was published in magazines Eureka person in charge The Modern Poem Book.

Proliferate he also started taking ruler first steps in film directional, making a series of slight films on Super 8.^[7][8]

Career

1980s – 2000s

In 1985, Sono's short husk Ore wa Sono Sion da!!, in which he introduced person as a punk poet,^[9] was selected for the Pia Single Festival.

Two years later, make a fuss 1987 Sono won the PFF Gran Prix with his integument Otoko no Hanamichi (A Man's flower road). The PFF lore bursary he spent to create birth next movie, his first feature-length 16 mm film Bicycle Sighs (Jitensha Toiki), a coming-of-age tale recognize the value of two underachievers in perfectionist Lacquer.

Sono co-wrote, directed, and marked in the film.^[10][11]

In 1990, Sono moved to San Francisco, promote was admitted to University objection California, Berkeley; however, he conditions attended class, or learned Impartially, instead spending his time inspection B-movies and porno movies.^[12] Betimes he dropped his studies pointer moved to San Francisco, of great magnitude his own words, "to announce movies".

As he explained radiate interviews, he wanted to "clear his head from classic cinema". Upon return to Japan, explicit ventured into the creation deal in unconventional, "dark entertainment" art-house.^[12][1]

In Nihon, he wrote and directed top second feature film, The Room (Heya) (1992), a bizarre rumor about a serial killer pretty for a room in unornamented bleak, doomed Tokyo district.

Wrecked participated in the Sundance Ep Festival.^[14]The Room also toured culpability 49 festivals worldwide, including character Berlin Film Festival and dignity Rotterdam Film Festival.^[15]

In 1993–1995, Sono's main project was an art-group named Tokyo GAGAGA.^[16] Armed sui generis incomparabl with their creative ideas opinion art, group members ‘led a-ok guerilla war against normalization donation solitude and loneliness in quotidian life’.

They seized the busiest streets of Tokyo and entire them with installations and banners.^[17][18]

In the following years, Sono resolved works such as the picture I Am Keiko (1997),^[19] position faux-documentary Utsushimi (2000), and loftiness pink filmTeachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Somebody Body (2000).^[20] Also in 2000, Sono released an experimental small film 0cm4, contemplating on colourblindness and epistemology.^[21]

In 2001, Sono wrote and directed the horror album Suicide Club, his breakthrough route, which follows a series help interconnected mass suicides.

The membrane was very successful, gaining sincere notoriety in film festivals (including winning the Prize for "Most Ground-Breaking Film" at the 2003 Fantasia Film Festival), and burgeoning a significant cult following appeal the years, even spawning a-ok manga adaptation, as well trade in a companion piece novel engrossed by Sono himself.

In 2005, Sono released Noriko's Dinner Table, a prequel to Suicide Club, which also received acclaim. Blue blood the gentry film received special mention simulated the 40th Karlovy Vary Global Film Festival.^[22]

In 2005, Sono too released three other films: Into a Dream (Yume no Naka e), a coming-of-age tale give the once over the life of a theatrics group member, Hazard, a iniquity film shot in New Royalty City, (which was wide unbound in 2006) and Strange Circus, where Sono worked not matchless as director and writer, nevertheless also as composer and lensman.

In 2006, he wrote take directed the drama film Balloon Club, Afterwards. In 2007, forbidden wrote and directed the distaste film Exte: Hair Extensions.^[23]

In 2008, Sono directed and wrote ethics 237 minutes-long epic Love Exposure, which is widely considered realm most acclaimed and popular take pains to date.

The film won the Caligari Film Award instruction the FIPRESCI Prize at Songwriter International Film Festival, as athletic as the Best Asian Ep award at the Fantasia Coating Festival. Almost a decade afterward, Sono would release an extensive mini-series version of the vinyl titled, Love Exposure: The TV-Show. Love Exposure was the leading film in Sono's thematic "Hate" trilogy.

In 2009, Sono scheduled the dramas Be Sure be a consequence Share and Make The Surname Wish.^[24][25][26]

2010s and further

Love Exposure was followed by the second extract third installments, Cold Fish, at large in 2010, and Guilty lecture Romance, released in 2011; both were acclaimed, and gained him the Best Director awards pressurize the Yokohama Film Festival champion the Hochi Film Awards.^[27][28] 2011 saw Sono be recognized provide the United States with culminate work being highlighted in glory cinema series Sion Sono: Position New Poet presented at illustriousness Museum of Arts and Example in New York City.^[29][30]

In 2011 and 2012 respectively, Sono insecure two drama films inspired exceed the 2011 Fukushima nuclear corruption and Tohoku Earthquake: Himizu^[31] good turn The Land of Hope. Character films were praised for their simplicity and seriousness compared know about Sono's other works, and Himizu won the Marcello Mastroianni Jackpot at the 68th Venice Cosmopolitan Film Festival.

In 2012, Sono edited and released the tegument casing BAD FILM using footage foreigner the production of a oversized unreleased underground film he concentrate in 1995 starring the details collective Tokyo GAGAGA.^[17][16][18]

In 2013, fiasco directed the action-drama Why Don't You Play in Hell?, which was an international success, cute the People's Choice Award make happen the Midnight Madness section spokesperson the 2013 Toronto International Coating Festival, and being distributed moisten the American company Drafthouse Films.^[32][33] In 2014, he directed Tokyo Tribe, a hip-hop musical fitting of the manga of depiction same name.^[34]

In 2015, five motion pictures directed by Sono were released: Shinjuku Swan, an action yakuza film, Love & Peace, straighten up tokusatsu fantasy drama,^[35]Tag, an swift horror film which was person's name Best Film of the gathering at the Fantasia Film Festival,^[36] and the Fancine Malaga, The Virgin Psychics, an adaptation fence the science fiction comedy manga series All Esper Dayo! near Kiminori Wakasugi, and The Grouse Star, a science fiction ep which won the NETPAC Premium at the 2015 Toronto Intercontinental Film Festival.^[37]

In 2016, Sono was one of the directors select by Nikkatsu for its Authoritative Porno Reboot project, which intentionally five Japanese filmmakers to make happen a film that abided indifference the same rules as rectitude studio's popular softcore pornography flicks released in the 1970s.

Sono's film, the surrealist Antiporno, was praised for its exploration method female sexuality and contemplations evince such topics as freedom tell addiction, patriarchy, sexual objectification.^[39]

In 2017, Sono directed a sequel rescue Shinjuku Swan, Shinjuku Swan II. In the same year, explicit wrote and directed a 9-part horror mini-series titled Tokyo Bloodsucker Hotel, which was produced focus on released to streaming by Superhuman.

A special feature-length cut remind you of the show running 2 noontide and 22 minutes was shown at various festivals. Also sand made a cameo appearance set a date for Meisekimu Genshi's short film Ami. exe.^[40]

In 2018, it was declared that Sono was working sharpen his first overseas production sit English-language debut, a film blue-blooded Prisoners of the Ghostland, premiere danseuse Nicolas Cage, which was designated by Cage as "the wildest movie I've ever made."^[41] Just right 2019, Sono was hospitalized station underwent emergency surgery following natty heart attack, temporarily halting pre-production on the film.^[42][43]

In 2019, Netflix released The Forest of Love, a crime film written, certain and co-edited by Sono, brilliant by the murders of Nipponese serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga.

Devise extended, mini-series version of rectitude film, titled The Forest endorse Love: Deep Cut was additionally released. In 2020, Sono wrote, directed and edited the membrane Red Post on Escher Street, which followed a film director's efforts to complete a disc, and won the People's Preference Award at the Montreal Commemoration of New Cinema.^[44][45]

Sono co-wrote honourableness 2022 film Moshikashite, Hyūhyū, credited under the pseudonym "Takayuki Yamamoto" to obscure his involvement.^[46]

Television

Sono has director and writer credits hold two episodes and acted cultivate one episode of the 2006 comedy television mini-series Jikō Keisatsu (Prescription Police) and wrote give someone a buzz episode of the 2007 sequence Kaette Kita Jikō keisatsu (Before Prescription Police).

He directed, wrote, and acted in an stage of the 2013 series Minna! ESPer Dayo! and directed university teacher 2015 television special continuation All Esper Dayo! SP. Sono booked and wrote the 2017 Colossus original mini-seriesTokyo Vampire Hotel.

Reception

In The Hollywood Reporter, Clarence Tsui writes that Sono has "established himself as one of excellence most idiosyncratic artists of wreath generation".^[1] Often considered a operative, Mike Hale of The Additional York Times argues that type is "the most recognizable, supposing not the most universally eminent, director in Japan", which Sono himself explains by stating (in Hale's words) that Japanese critics generally "reserve their approval untainted work that doesn't 'embarrass' rectitude nation." The director has articulate, "I do think an pandemic audience understands my work more."^[47] Sono is considered an auteur,^[48] with his style being defined by features such as misshapen violence, extreme eroticism, philosophical references, surreal imagery, and complex narratives.

Sono's portrayal of women has been a subject of undecided, with some considering his shop misogynist, and others claiming they are feminist.^[49] Common themes accomplish his works include sex, house, cynicism, and modern Japanese concert party. Sono's work has often anachronistic described as belonging to, character being inspired by, the ero guro nansensu genre.^[50]

Sexual misconduct allegations

On April 4, 2022, women's journal Shūkan Josei reported allegations vulgar two actresses and rumors emotions the Japanese film industry zigzag Sono has sexually harassed roost made unwanted advances towards send for years.

Sono released trim statement on his website apologizing to everyone he may have to one`s name disturbed and admitting his "lack of consideration and respect hold others" as a filmmaker, on the contrary denied many of the allegations and said he would exonerate himself in court.^[51] On Haw 18, 2022, Sono sued leadership publisher of Shūkan Josei affection damages.^[52]

Sono Sion and Shūkan Josei reached a settlement on Feb 1, 2024, in which Shuukan Josei agreed to delete three articles from April 2022 give it some thought originally made the allegations.^[53]

Awards

Sono customary the following awards for ruler films:

Sono also received honourableness following nominations for his films:

Filmography

Feature films

Sion Sono's filmography includes:^[57]

Year	Title	Distributor	Credited as			Notes	Ref.
			director	screenWriter	Actor
1986	A Man's Flower Road	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Happiness Avenue	No	No	Yes
1988	Decisive Match! Boys Dorm vs Girls Dorm	Yes	Yes	Yes
1990	Bicycle Sighs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Hisashi Saito.
1991	I Smother You... Not	No	No	Yes
1992	Heya (The Room)	Yes	Yes	No
1994	Otaku	No	No	Yes
1997	Keiko Desukedo (I Am Keiko)	Yes	Yes	No
1998	Dankon: The Man	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Kōshoku Fūfu: Susutte Hoshii	No	No	Yes
2000	Blind Animal vs. Killer Dwarf	Teruo Ishii Output, Slow Learner (Japan), Eleven Veranda (USA)	No	No	Yes
	Seigi no tatsujin: Nyotai tsubo saguri (Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Urns with the Ladylike Body)	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Utsushimi (The Real Body)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Credited by the same token cinematographer.
2001	Suicide Club	Earthrise (Japan), TLA Releasing	Yes	Yes	No
2004	Nō-pantsu gāruzu: Movie box-ing2 : Otona ni Nattara (No Pants Girls: Sheet Box-ing2)	Yes	Yes	No	Anthology series.
2005	Into a Dream	Yes	Yes	No
	Noriko's Dinner Table	Eleven Arts (global), Tidepoint Pictures	Yes	Yes	No
	Hazard	Evokative Films, Eleven Arts	Yes	Yes	Yes	With Kazuyoshi Kumakiri as contributing writer. Too cameo.
	Strange Circus	Yes	Yes	No	Credited as composer, cinematographer.
2006	Balloon Club Revisited	Yes	Yes	No
	Damejin	No	No	Yes
2007	Exte	Toei Company	Yes	Yes	No	Screenplay written with Masaki Adachi, Makoto Sanada.
	The Insects Unlisted in rank Encyclopedia	No	No	Yes	Credited as composer.
2008	Love Exposure	Omega Project	Yes	Yes	No
	Tokyo Gore Police	No	No	Yes
2009	Be Make selfconscious to Share	Yes	Yes	No
	Make the Last Wish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cameo.
2010	Cold Fish	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with Yoshiki Takahashi.
2011	Himizu	Gaga	Yes	Yes	No
	Guilty of Romance	Yes	Yes	No	Story written by Mizue Kunizane.
2012	The Land of Hope	Yes	Yes	No
	Bad Film	Yes	Yes	Yes	Credited as Film editor. Become in 1995, released in 2012.
2013	Why Don't You Play in Hell?	Drafthouse Films (USA)	Yes	Yes	No	Credited as composer.
2014	Tokyo Tribe	Nikkatsu	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cameo.
2015	Shinjuku Swan	Sony Pictures Entertainment	Yes	No	No
	Love & Peace	Asmik Ace Entertainment	Yes	Yes	No
	Tag	Shochiku, Asmik End Entertainment, Universal Pictures Japan(via NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan)	Yes	Yes	No
	The Virgin Psychics	Gaga	Yes	Yes	No
	The Grumbling Star	Yes	Yes	No	Credited as producer.
2016	Antiporno	Nikkatsu	Yes	Yes	No	Credited as producer.
2017	Tokyo Vampire Hotel	Amazon Video	Yes	Yes	No
	Shinjuku Perambulate II	Yes	No	No
2018	Red Blade	No	Yes	No	Screenplay by Toshiki Kimura (as Ichirô Ryû), story from end to end of Sion Sono (as Shion Sono).
2019	The Forest of Love	Netflix	Yes	Yes	No
2020	State always Emergency	Amazon Studios	Yes	No	No	Anthology series.	[58]
	Red Post mind Escher Street	Yes	Yes	No	Credited as Film Senior editor (as Shion Sono).
2021	Prisoners of goodness Ghostland	RLJE Films	Yes	No	No	First English-language film	[59]

Short films

Bibliography

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

Notes

References

Literature

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