Sion Sono

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-12-18 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan

Sion Sono

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".

Production

2005

Strange Circus

as Original Music Composer

2005

Strange Circus

as Director

2005

1988

ENDLESS LOVE

as Director of Photography

2007

2001

Suicide Club

as Director

2001

Suicide Club

as Writer

2009

Love Exposure

as Writer

2009

Love Exposure

as Director

2005

2005

Into a Dream

as Director

2005

Into a Dream

as Writer

2007

2011

Cold Fish

as Screenplay

2011

Cold Fish

as Director

2011

2011

2005

Hazard

as Director

2009

Be Sure to Share

as Director

2009

2017

Antiporno

as Producer

1990

Bicycle Sighs

as Writer

1990

Bicycle Sighs

as Director

2011

Himizu

as Screenplay

2011

Himizu

as Director

1992

The Room

as Writer

1992

The Room

as Director

1985

I Am Sono Sion!

as Director

2000

Utsushimi

as Writer

2000

Utsushimi

as Director

2012

The Land of Hope

as Director

2012

2004

Virtual Love

as Director

2004

No Memory Woman

as Director

2004

Love Doctor

as Director

2020

The Lonely 19:00

as Director

1997

I Am Keiko

as Director

1997

I Am Keiko

as Writer

2011

YOU+ME=LOVE

as Casting

2010

Karma

as Writer

2010

Karma

as Executive Producer

2010

Karma

as Script Supervisor

2012

BAD FILM

as Director

1989

2018

Dream Breaker

as Executive Producer

2021

AMI.exe

as Producer

1992

The Room

as Editor

2014

Tokyo Tribe

as Director

2004

When I Grow Up

as Director

1984

Love Song

as Writer

2015

Shinjuku Swan

as Director

2020

2020

2006

1984

Love Song

as Director

2001

0cm⁴

as Director

2015

Love & Peace

as Writer

2015

Love & Peace

as Director

2015

Tag

as Screenplay

2015

Tag

as Director

1998

Phallus: The Man

as Director

1998

1987

2003

Father's Day

as Director

2015

The Virgin Psychics

as Screenplay

2015

-

東京ガガガ

as Director of Operations

2015

2015

2012

BAD FILM

as Screenplay

2016

Madly

as Director

1986

Love

as Director

2014

Tokyo Tribe

as Screenplay

1998

Wind

as Director

2017

Antiporno

as Director

1995

Vagina & Virgin

as Director

2007

Exte: Hair Extensions

as Original Music Composer

2017

Antiporno

as Screenplay

2017

Shinjuku Swan II

as Director

1987

1987

2016

Madly

as Story

2016

Madly

as Screenplay

2005

2005

Hazard

as Screenplay

2017

2017

2001

0cm⁴

as Editor

2001

0cm⁴

as Writer

1997

I Am Keiko

as Editor

1997

I Am Keiko

as Art Direction

1997

I Am Keiko

as Producer

2018

Red Blade

as Writer

2019

The Forest of Love

as Screenplay

2019

2009

2009

1985

I Am Sono Sion!

as Producer

1985

1985

I Am Sono Sion!

as Screenplay

2019

2000

Utsushimi

as Editor

2000

Utsushimi

as Camera Operator

2020

1998

Wind

as Writer

2022

2012

Tokyo Gagaga

as Director

2013

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

as Original Music Composer

2016

RE:BORN

as Screenplay

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