Direction: Sion Sono
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sion Sono. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Antiporno
2016 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Ami Tomite · Mariko Tsutsui · Fujiko · Dai Hasegawa
Plot Kyoko is a beautiful, prestigious young artist who has a sadistic relationship with her assistant... until someone yells “cut!”, and the leading lady’s personality splits into multi-layered delirium. Sion Sono...
5.7
646 votes
5.7
646 votes
I Am Keiko
1997 · Movie · 61 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Keiko Suzuki
Plot Keiko desu kedo ("I Am Keiko" or "Hello, It's Keiko," 1997) : Veteran independent filmmaker and avid Andy Warhol devotee Shion Sono directs this meditation on the passing of time....
5.6
47 votes
5.6
47 votes
Tag
2015 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Reina Triendl · Mariko Shinoda · Erina Mano · Yuki Sakurai
Plot A bus full of high school girls are on their way to a school trip. A sudden gust of wind slices the bus in half, length-wise killing 40 girls in...
5.4
804 votes
5.4
804 votes
Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)
2001 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Akaji Maro · Masatoshi Nagase · Saya Hagiwara
Plot 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
The Room
1993 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Akaji Maro · Yoriko Douguchi · Shiro Sano · Sayoko Takahashi
Plot A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through all the rooms she can find in Tokyo, but none of these...
5.4
25 votes
5.4
25 votes
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat
Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido
Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.
5.4
74 votes
5.4
74 votes
Tokyo Tribe
2014 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Young Dais · Nana Seino · Shunsuke Daitô
Plot Midnight Madness favourite Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play in Hell?, winner of the 2013 People's Choice Midnight Madness Award) ventures even further into uncharted cinematic territory with this yakuza-street...
5.2
357 votes
5.2
357 votes
Bicycle Sighs
1990 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Sion Sono · Masahiro Sugiyama · Hiroko Yamamoto · Hiromi Kawanishi
Plot Under-achievers Shiro and Keita manage to survive delivering newspapers. They are otherwise on their own since their peers had all left for university three years earlier. Passing the entrance exam...
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
Exte: Hair Extensions
2007 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Chiaki Kuriyama · Ren Osugi · Megumi Sato · Tsugumi
Plot What if extensions carried the grudge of the individual to which the hair originally belonged and started attacking people wearing it at random? Customs agents discover a huge amount of...
5.1
219 votes
5.1
219 votes
I Am Sono Sion!
1985 · Documentary · 36 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Sion Sono
Plot Ore wa Sono Sion da! ("I Am Sono Sion!", 1985) : Sono's first film, 30 minutes long and shot on 8mm. A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist...
4.8
24 votes
4.8
24 votes
The Virgin Psychics
2015 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Motoki Fukami · Elaiza Ikeda · Megumi Kagurazaka · Erina Mano
Plot Yoshiro is a loser. The only ray of light in his life is the beautiful Sae, but she completely ignores him. One day, the boy discovers he has telekinetic powers,...
4.5
145 votes
4.5
145 votes
4.3
22 votes
Prisoners of the Ghostland
2021 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Nicolas Cage · Sofia Boutella · Ed Skrein · Nick Cassavetes
Plot In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia...
3.7
1K votes
3.7
1K votes
0cm4 (S)
2001 · Movie · 22 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Kumiko Aso · Masatoshi Nagase · Takuji Suzuki
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Father's Day (S)
2003 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Plot Two girls and their partners want to visit their father to celebrate Father's Day. However, instead of happy meeting, they will be forced to experience inexplicable things.
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State of Emergency
2020 · Movie · min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono · Tsuyoshi Muro · Satoshi Miki · Ryota Nakano
Cast Yuzu Aoki · Yukino Kishii · Makiko Watanabe · Takumi Saito
Plot Consists of 5 short films related with different directors' perspective of the Covid 19 pandemic. "Delivery 2020" Director: Ryota Nakano "Lonely 19:00" Director: Sion Sono "DEEPMURO" Asynchronous Tech Department (Tsuyoshi...
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All Esper Dayo! (TV Series)
2013 · Series · 29 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono · Yû Irie · Taichi Suzuki · Shô Tsukikawa
Cast Shôta Sometani · Kaho · Erina Mano · Ken Yasuda
Plot In Notsu, Oita Prefecture, there are many people with supernatural powers. High school student Yoshio Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) is one of them and can read other people's minds. Yoshio uses...
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Love (S)
1986 · Movie · 31 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Hiromi Kawanishi · Sion Sono
Plot A young man dressed as a samurai walks along a road lined with flowering cherry trees. Then, no longer in costume, he talks with the camerawoman who is filming him,...
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Make the Last Wish
2009 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Lorena Kotou · Sakura Ando · Keisuke Horibe · Mitsuru Kuramoto
Plot Koike Minami (Hikari Mitsushima) returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister’s wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a...
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