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ラブソング (1984)
Character: N/A
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
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愛の街角2丁目3番地 (1986)
Character: N/A
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.
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愛 (1986)
Character: N/A
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.
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好色夫婦 すすって欲しい (1999)
Character: N/A
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.
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きらい・じゃないよ (1991)
Character: N/A
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)
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Himiko-san (2007)
Character: N/A
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.
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天国平和ラッパ (1994)
Character: N/A
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!
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俺は園子温だ (1985)
Character: Himself
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.
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Otaku (1994)
Character: Self
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.
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Tokyo Gagaga (2012)
Character: self
Interview with the director that includes scenes from gang war in tokyo.
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Virtual Love (2004)
Character: Masao
Nana (Jun Natsukawa) and her colleague Mei (Moe Yoshizawa) spend time in a virtual world with a man and sell their love memories. The next Nana customer is Mitsuru (ERIKU). Nana begins to fall in love with Mitsuru even though she knows she is virtual. But her litigation is a virtual world. Mitsuru in the real world was just a man.
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『愛のむきだし』メイキング (2010)
Character: Self
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
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図鑑に載ってない虫 (2007)
Character: N/A
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.
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東京残酷警察 (2008)
Character: N/A
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
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園子温という生きもの (2016)
Character: Self
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.
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性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり (2000)
Character: Tetsuya
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.
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ami. exe (2017)
Character: The Dream Man
Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.
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みんな！エスパーだよ！番外編 ～エスパー、都へ行く～ (2015)
Character: Cameo
High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking for his help. Yoshio Kamogawa loves Sae Asami. Yoshio Kamogawa goes to Tokyo and infiltrates the high school where Sae Aami attends. Yoshio Kamogawa then becomes involved in a strife between 3 different groups as he tries to save Sae Asami. Shizuka Tachibana also falls in love with Yoshio Kamogawa.
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男の花道 (1987)
Character: The Man in the Red Coat
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult.
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Venezia 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Character: Self (segment Sion Sono)
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.
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BAD FILM (2012)
Character: Shiro
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.
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決戦！女子寮対男子寮 (1988)
Character: N/A
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.
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自転車吐息 (1990)
Character: Shiro
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.
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盲獣VS一寸法師 (2001)
Character: N/A
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.
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ダメジン (2006)
Character: Golden Child (voice)
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.
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男のコたち反省しなさい (1989)
Character: N/A
The only AV work directed by Sion Sono. Komachi and Reimi start getting wet in search for a man.
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