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Sion Sono

Born December 1961
Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Occupation Poet, film director, writer, cinematographer, composer, and actor
Website
http://www.sonosion.com/

Sion Sono (園 子温 Sono Shion?, born 1961) is a controversial poet and filmmaker. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is a city located in Aichi, Japan. It was formerly known as Ushikubo (牛窪 WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan and is best known for his movies and avant-garde poetry performances. is a city located in Aichi, Japan. It was formerly known as Ushikubo (牛窪 WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard

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Early career

Sono began his career as a poet in 1978 when he was only 17 years old. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) His poems appeared in popular Japanese publications such as The Modern Poem Book. Afterwards, he enrolled in the Hosei University, but left school in mid-course and began making 8 mm films. In 1985, he debuted in the PIA Film Festival with a 30-min experimental short movie, I Am Sion Sono!! (Ore wa Sion Sono da!!), a selection of his poetry being read by him on the screen. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Two years later he participated with the movie A Man's Hanamichi (Otoko no Hanamichi), and won the Grand Prize.

Feature Filmmaker

After receiving a fellowship with the PIA, Sono made his first feature-length 16mm film in 1990, Bicycle Sighs (Jitensha Toiki), which he co-wrote, directed, and starred himself. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) A coming-of-age tale about two underachivers in the perfectionist Japan, Bicycle Sighs settled Sono as a director with great box office success in Japan, and for nearly two years was played over 30 film festivals around Europe and Asia.

Young Sion Sono.
Young Sion Sono.

In 1992, Sono's second feature film The Room (Heya), also written by himself, a bizarre tale about a serial killer looking for a room in a bleak, doomed Tokyo district, participated at the Tokyo Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The Sundance Film Festival is a Film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. The Room also toured on 49 festivals worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading Film festivals and most reputable media events held in Berlin The International Film Festival Rotterdam ( IFFR) is an annual Film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the

At this stage Sono appeared as an actor in the movie I Hate You. . . Not (Kirai. . . Janaiyo), and in 1994 caught the attention of the acclaimed French directors Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jackie Bastide, who used footage of Sion Sono's poetry group and interviewed him for their famous documentary Otaku, about the otaku lifestyle and post-modernism in Japan. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Jean-Jacques Beineix (born October 8, 1946) is a French Film director. is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests particularly Anime, Manga, and Video games. Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism However, Sono appeared as the opposite of an otaku -- the footage used was of him and his group in street performances and outgoing activities. Otaku was a success and made Sono gain fame as both a poet and prominent figure in Japanese independent filmmaking.

Sion Sono also continued to direct and write various films such as Keiko Desukedo (a film about the lonely life of a waitress) in 1997 and the 26-min short Kaze (Wind) in 1998. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)

Tokyo GAGAGA

Sion Sono at the Tokyo GAGAGA performance.
Sion Sono at the Tokyo GAGAGA performance.

Coming back to his poet roots, in 1997 Sion Sono staged a controversial guerilla performance street poetry-reading project named Tokyo GAGAGA, which elevated his popularity around the poet community in Japan. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc A performance, in Performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers behave in a particular way for another group of people The project itself was an extended performance that Sion Sono and a group which he founded had been doing before in short periods of times. The performance featured a protest-like mass poetry reading and painting around various popular places and subway stations in Tokyo (namely, the Shibuya and Harayuko station), where the two-thousand GAGAGA members placed themselves with poems painted in black ink in huge flags. is a Train station located in Shibuya Tokyo, Japan. With 24 million passengers on an average weekday in 2004 it is the third-busiest commuter rail station in Tokyo Although the police appeared quite frequently during the GAGAGA project, it lasted a few weeks, and also became a book by the end of the performance with immediate success.

After this period, Sono followed his filmmaking career in 1998 with a serial killer movie, Dankon: The Man, and also took part as the star, director and writer in the pseudo-documentary Utsushimi in 2000, about three artists (himself, butoh master Maro Akaji and fashion designer Arakawa Shinichiro) and their race to make a movie together, with a romantic comedy story underneath. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

He also participated in a small role as an actor in the film and novel adaptation Blind Beast vs. Dwarf (Môjû tai Issunbôshi), and released 0cm4 in 2001, an experimental film about a colorblind man and how his world abruptly and severely changes after an operation that cures him, starring Masatoshi Nagase, which became a close friend to Sion Sono. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Color blindness, a Color vision deficiency is the inability to perceive differences between some of the Colors that others can distinguish Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏 Nagase Masatoshi) (b July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki, Japan) is a Japanese Actor.

Worldwide Popularity and Current Projects

Sion Sono on the 2003 Fantasy Film Festival.
Sion Sono on the 2003 Fantasy Film Festival.

In 2002, Sion Sono wrote, directed, shot in the record time of two weeks (and assembled in four) what would later become his most successful movie to date: Suicide Circle, (Jisatsu Saakuru), a disturbing thriller about Japan's incredibly high suicide rate. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Suicide Club, known in Japan as is a 2002 Japanese Independent film and part of a trilogy that gained a considerable amount The film once again starred Sono's friends Masatoshi Nagase (from 0cm4) and Maro Akaji (from Utsumishi), along big stars such as Ryo Ishibashi and Rolly, although using for its most unknown actors such as Saya Hagiwara. Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏 Nagase Masatoshi) (b July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki, Japan) is a Japanese Actor. is a Japanese Actor and international Celebrity. He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Suicide Circle became a major commercial hit in Japan and was also played in many film festivals, where it was retitled Suicide Club (school clubs in Japan are called サークル this is a literal translation) . It won the Groundbreaker Award and the Most Groundbreaking Film jury prize at the Fant-Asia Film Festival. Fantasia Festival (Fantasia-fest FanTasia Fant-Asia is North America 's premiere (and largest genre Film festival.

Suicide Circle's opening scene, shocking and extreme, made it famous around the independent horror fanbase, becoming a cult movie, and as a result it was the first Sion Sono movie to get an official DVD release in the West. A cult film is a Film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. This made him a popular director in the J-Horror English-speaking community, who began looking forward to his films, as Sono stated that Suicide Circle would be a part of a trilogy. J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture

After the huge success that Suicide Circle represented in Sono's career as a filmmaker, he decided to improve his fame as a writer and released a novel titled Jisatsu Saakuru: Kanzenban (Suicide Circle: The Complete Edition), which served as a side-story and sequel to the movie. is a novel written by Japanese poet and filmmaker Sion Sono, based on his Suicide Circle trilogy He also worked with mangaka Usumaru Furuya and released the Suicide Circle manga, which was a completely different story, as Sono requested Furuya. He also released various films such as Chichi no Nichi and HAZARD, starring once again Saya Hagiwara. HAZARD is a 2005 Japanese film mostly shot in New York, written and directed by Sono Sion, starring Joe Odagiri and

Sion Sono, actress Miyazaki Masumi and actor Ishida Issei during a Strange Circus press conference.
Sion Sono, actress Miyazaki Masumi and actor Ishida Issei during a Strange Circus press conference.

2005 was a major year in Sion Sono's career. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He wrote and directed Into a Dream (Yume no Naka e), which also released as a novel later on, and was a coming-of-age tale much in the style of his first film Bicycle Sighs, about the life of a theatre group member and his quest to find who he is. Few weeks after that, he released the Suicide Circle's second part, based on the Kanzenban novel. Noriko's Dinner Table was also directed and written by him, and was part of twelve film festivals worldwide. is the follow-up to the Cult movie Suicide Club ( Jisatsu Sākuru) a Japanese film concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law For this movie he worked with many first-time actors, and took the Suicide Circle story into a different level. For his efforts, he received a Don Quijote Award and a Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a Film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad Czech Republic.

At the end of 2005, Sion Sono also premiered a personal project with famous actor Ishida Issei and the legendary actress Miyazaki Masumi, in what became her acclaimed comeback after a decade off the screen. is an Actress and model born on 1968-01-26 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Strange Circus (Kimyô na Sâkasu), directed, written, composed and cinematographed by Sono, took elements from the infamous Grand Guignol theater and a story from the minds of both Masumi and Sono, filled with incest, sexual abuse, terrible family issues, extreme gore, and a twisted sense of reality. The Grand Guignol ( pronounced giɲɔl was a theatre ( Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol) in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis rue The film participated in many film festivals with a huge success, boosting Masumi's and Sono's career.

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External links

Suicide Club, known in Japan as is a 2002 Japanese Independent film and part of a trilogy that gained a considerable amount HAZARD is a 2005 Japanese film mostly shot in New York, written and directed by Sono Sion, starring Joe Odagiri and is the follow-up to the Cult movie Suicide Club ( Jisatsu Sākuru) a Japanese film concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law is a 2007 Japanese horror film written and directed by Sion Sono, and stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Sato is a novel written by Japanese poet and filmmaker Sion Sono, based on his Suicide Circle trilogy
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