Sion Sono Filmography

Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Composer (Music Score), Screen Story, Screenwriter

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Tokyo Gore Police

Actors: Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny, Jiji Bu, Keisuke Horibe

Synopsis: A mad scientist known as Key Man has created a rampaging virus that mutates unsuspecting humans into nightmarish abominations of nature, and in order to dispose of these repulsive monstrosities, the Tokyo police have created a special squad of fearless freak fighters. Chief among these brave Read More

10/3/08
Noriko's Dinner Table

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shiro Namiki

Synopsis: Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) constitutes a follow-up with thematic similarities and loose narrative connections (though not a direct sequel) to Japanese filmmaker Shion Sono's dark 2002 satire Suicide Club. The time-fractured narrative weaves the gothic tale of the two backward Shimbara Read More

6/13/07
Exte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Tsugumi, Miku Sato, Megumi Sato, Mayu Sakuma, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Vol. 1) and prolific character actor Ren Osugi (Nightmare Detective) star in Suicide Club director Sion Sono's alternately satirical and terrifying tale of hirsute horror. Yuko (Kuriyama) is a eager apprentice at the Gilles de Rais salon who dreams of one day becoming a Read More

2007
Strange Circus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Hirochi Oguchi, Tomorowo Taguchi

Synopsis: From the director of the cult hit Suicide Club comes an unsettling look at the life of a sexually-abused adolescent whose inability to distinguish her mother's pleasure from her own pain sends her down a dark and surreal path. Sexually molested by her father Gozu (Hiroshi Oguchi) and mentally Read More

2005
Suicide Club

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato, Mai Housyou, Takashi Nomura

Synopsis: This dark horror film begins with the grisly spectacle of 54 Japanese schoolgirls jumping in unison into the path of an oncoming train. This is only the first in a wave of mass suicides that sweeps across Japan, baffling the police and panicking the populace. The two police officers assigned to Read More

2002
Keiko Desukedo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Veteran independent filmmaker and avid Andy Warhol devotee Shion Sono directs this meditation on the passing of time. The film focuses on Keiko Suzuki (aptly played by Keiko Suzuki), a Tokyo waitress living alone in her brightly painted apartment. Since her father died of cancer, she has become Read More

1997