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", a "stakhanovist filmmaker" with an "idiosyncratic" career.
Notable Works
Noriko's Dinner TableLove Exposure
Filmography (90 movies)
9.0
9.0
When I Grow Up
2004
Director
7.9
7.9
Love Exposure
2009
Writer
7.8
7.8
State of Emergency
2020
Director
7.4
7.4
Red Post on Escher Street
2020
Director
7.4
7.4
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
2013
Director
7.3
7.3
BAD FILM
2012
Director
7.2
7.2
Strange Circus
2005
Director
7.2
7.2
The Whispering Star
2015
Writer
7.1
7.1
RE:BORN
2016
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Himizu
2011
Director
7.0
7.0
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2007
7.0
7.0
Wind
1998
Director
7.0
7.0
Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection
2004
Screenplay
6.9
6.9
Cold Fish
2011
Screenplay
6.9
6.9
Love & Peace
2015
Writer
6.9
6.9
Noriko's Dinner Table
2005
Writer
6.9
6.9
Guilty of Romance
2011
Writer
6.7
6.7
Balloon Club Revisited
2006
Writer
6.7
6.7
0cm⁴
2001
Director
6.7
6.7
Antiporno
2017
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Tokyo Tribe
2014
Director
6.5
6.5
Hazard
2005
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Be Sure to Share
2009
Writer
6.5
6.5
Suicide Club
2001
Writer
6.5
6.5
Tag
2015
Screenplay
6.3
6.3
The Forest of Love
2019
Director
6.3
6.3
The Sion Sono
2016
as Self
6.2
6.2
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
2017
Writer
6.2
6.2
Make the Last Wish
2009
Director
6.1
6.1
The Room
1992
Director
6.1
6.1
The Land of Hope
2012
Writer
6.0
6.0
Into a Dream
2005
Writer
6.0
6.0
All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
2015
Writer
5.9
5.9
Crazy Samurai Musashi
2020
Writer
5.9
5.9
Exte: Hair Extensions
2007
Director
5.8
5.8
I Am Keiko
1997
Writer
5.5
5.5
Bicycle Sighs
1990
Director
5.5
5.5
All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
2015
Director
5.5
5.5
Father's Day
2003
Director
5.5
5.5
Shinjuku Swan
2015
Director
5.4
5.4
The Virgin Psychics
2015
Director
5.2
5.2
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Director
5.0
5.0
Damejin
2006
as (voice)
5.0
5.0
Prisoners of the Ghostland
2021
Director
4.9
4.9
Madly
2016
Screenplay
4.9
4.9
Love Song
1984
Writer
4.8
4.8
Shinjuku Swan II
2017
Director
4.8
4.8
Vagina & Virgin
1995
Director
4.5
4.5
Utsushimi
2000
Director
4.4
4.4
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
1994
as Self
4.4
4.4
Red Blade
2018
Writer
4.3
4.3
I Am Sono Sion!
1985
Director
4.3
4.3
A Man's Flower Road
1987
Writer
4.2
4.2
The Bastard and the Beautiful World
2018
Director
4.0
4.0
ami. exe
2017
as The Dream Man
4.0
4.0
Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
1988
Director
3.9
3.9
Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
2000
Director
3.8
3.8
Phallus: The Man
1998
Screenplay
3.4
3.4
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
2001
3.3
3.3
Love
1986
Director
3.0
3.0
Dream Breaker
2018
Executive Producer
3.0
3.0
Virtual Love
2004
Director
2.0
2.0
Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
1999
2.0
2.0
No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
2004
Screenplay
Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2006
I Hate You... Not
1991
Heaven's Trumpet
1994
The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
2008
as Himself
Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
2005
Making of Himizu
2012
as Self
Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
2004
as himself
Making of Hazard
2005
as himself
Tokyo Gagaga
2012
Director
HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
2005
as Self
Making of Antiporno
2016
as self
Making of Land of Hope
2013
as Self
Making of Tokyo Tribe
2015
as Self
Happiness Avenue
1986
Himiko-san
2007
Reflect On That Boys
1989
Director
ami. exe・2nd atom
2018
as The Dream Man
Making of Love Exposure
2010
as Self
Love Doctor
2004
Director
AMI.exe
2021
Producer
Possibly, Huh Huh
2022
Writer
Karma
2010
Executive Producer
The Lonely 19:00
2020
Director
My Future is Cinema's Future. Cinema's Future is my Future