18-12-1961
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
35
Total Films
소노 시온, Takayuki Yamamoto
Also known as (male)
Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Place of Birth
18-12-1961
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
35
Total Films
Shion Sono, Takayuki Yamamoto
Also Known As (male)
Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Place of Birth
actor
35 Works
producer
8 Works
director
132 Works
writer
48 Works
other
16 Works
ami. exe・2nd atom
The Dream Man invited Ami to his party.Year:
2018
ami. exe
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.Year:
2017
The Sion Sono
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight into the man, the poet, the painter, the scriptwriter, the husband and the boy who will eventually grow up to be the Sion Sono. Lineage, history and the past meeting the present are themes in this film in which Oshima connects the dots in Sono's creative life by taking the camera to the site of his upbringing and following the production of his most recent film The Whispering Star.Year:
2016
Making of Antiporno
The Making of AntipornoYear:
2016
Making of Tokyo Tribe
Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe.Year:
2015
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.Year:
2013
Making of Land of Hope
70 minute documentary on Sion Sono's film "The Land of Hope".Year:
2013
BAD FILM
Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs wild.Year:
2012
Making of Himizu
A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's HimizuYear:
2012
Tokyo Gagaga
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.Year:
2012
Making of Love Exposure
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".Year:
2010
Tokyo Gore Police
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.Year:
2008
The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.Year:
2008
Himiko-san
A unique youth group drama set in a deserted local city in the 1980s, depicting the fate of a mysterious girl, Himiko, and the men surrounding her. Himiko, a girl who once left town, returns as a beautiful adult woman. Mukawa, a member of the baseball team who is practicing hard with the aim of participating in Koshien, meets Himiko by chance and is captivated by her.Year:
2007
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.Year:
2007
Teruo Ishii Fan Club
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".Year:
2006
Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.Year:
2006
Strange Days: The Making of Strange Circus
The Making of Strange CircusYear:
2005
Making of Hazard
The Making of HazardYear:
2005
HAZARDOUS: An interview with Sion Sono
An interview with Sion Sono on his movie HazardYear:
2005
Jun Natsukawa - Virtual Love Behind-the-Scenes
Behind-the-scenes featuring gravure idol Jun Natsukawa in Sion Sono's Virtual Love.Year:
2004
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.Year:
2001
Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body
About a pottery workshop run by Ms. Namie. Her students want to become as skilled as her, and she teach them that the key to good pottery is love.Year:
2000
Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Hitomi ran down to a local city with her affair partner Suzuki. Daisuke, a regular customer of the soba shop where she got to work, fell in love with a bedridden wife, Sayoko, who looked a lot like her when she was young, and eventually regained her feelings of love for her wife. The relationship between Daisuke's son and his wife, Koichi, and Sanae has recently become jerky, and Sanae has finally left home. On the other hand, Hitomi is shocked to find out that Suzuki has a photo of his wife and children.Year:
1999
Otaku - Children of the Virtual Empire
A documentary that explores the life styles of various otakus in Japan. Various interviews are given to selected otakus who express how interesting it is to be an otaku as oppose to not being one at all. Along with various shots of various Japanese city landscapes and the inside of an average otaku home from rooms filled with videos, models, and the latest in technology.Year:
1994
Heaven's Trumpet
8mm film by Sho Fujiwara. A black-and-white cinemasco movie starring Sion Sono. It's a work that has an underground and nostalgic odor. It gets shorter with each screening. BUN-CHAN SEX!Year:
1994
I Hate You... Not
Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script / director is Eiichi Uchida, a scenario writer for "Eien no 1/2", and this is his debut as a director. Gen Takahashi is in charge of shooting. (8 mm)Year:
1991
Bicycle Sighs
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they started, but Keita is not very enthusiastic.Year:
1990
Reflect On That Boys
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.Year:
1989
Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm
A world-class marathon becomes the catalyst of clashes between the guests of a women’s and a men’s dormitory. Armed with toy machineguns and pistols, the young people challenge each other in a breathless race through the city streets. For one of the girls, the battle ends on the beach, where she watches an amazing event take place.Year:
1988
A Man's Flower Road
Shot in Super8 and divided in two parts, the film shows some moments from the life of a young university student, who lives with his family in a house in the outskirts.Year:
1987
Happiness Avenue
When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.Year:
1986
Love
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, he writes a date and an hour (May 1, 1985, 10 a.m.) on a blackboard and then bursts out in rage at the fact that his girlfriend, Hiromi, has been missing for three days. A few moments of their love story are retraced, before returning to the gloomy desperation of the young man, who walks into the darkness of a night illuminated by neon signs and goes into a long monologue of love, directed at the girl.Year:
1986
I Am Sono Sion!
Sono's first film, 30 minutes long and shot on 8mm. A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist contemplates his life as he approaches his birthday.Year:
1985
Love Song
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.Year:
1984
