Sion Sono

Sion Sono was born on Dec 18, 1961 in Japan. Sion Sono's big-screen debut came with A Man's Flower Road directed by Sion Sono in 1987, strarring . Sion Sono is known for Why Don't You Play in Hell? directed by Sion Sono, Jun Kunimura stars as Muto and Fumi Nikaidô as Mitsuko Muto. Sion Sono has got 28 awards and 33 nominations so far. The most recent award Sion Sono achieved is Montréal Festival of New Cinema. The upcoming new movie Sion Sono plays is Prisoners of the Ghostland which will be released on Sep 17, 2021.

Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early 90s, in which he also starred. The film that helped him reach a wider international audience and establish himself as a cult director is Love Exposure (2008) , released in 2008. Ai no mukidashi is the first installment of Sono's Trilogy of Hate followed by Tsumetai nettaigyo (2010) and concluded with Guilty of Romance (2011). The films of Shion Sono often tell the stories of socially marginalized teenagers or young adults who end up engaging in activities that involve murders, sexual abuse and criminal behavior. Sono's films in most of the cases contain scenes filled with graphic violence and blood that echo the long pinku eiga and anime tradition of Japanese cinema.