Sion Sono

Japanese filmmaker, author and poet

1.47body-of-work score · ranked #650 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
December 18, 1961 · Toyokawa
Nationality
Japan
Work
actor, poet, novelist, film director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Sion Sono
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Love Exposure愛のむきだし

    2008 · Japan · comedy, romance, action

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2009 #4 · Letterboxd Top 250 #74

    0.672 citations
  2. 2
    Cold Fish冷たい熱帯魚

    2010 · Japan · horror, thriller, drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2011 #3

    0.501 citation
  3. 3
    Land of Hope希望の国

    2012 · Japan / United Kingdom · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2012 #9

    0.301 citation

Complete filmography

All 31 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1992The Room
  • 1997I Am Keiko
  • 2000Utsushimi
  • 2001Suicide Club
  • 2004ノーパンツ・ガールズ
  • 2005Hazard
  • 2005Into a Dream
  • 2005Noriko's Dinner Table
  • 2005Strange Circus
  • 2006Balloon Club Revisited
  • 2007Exte
  • 2008Love Exposure
  • 2009Be Sure to Share
  • 2009Make the Last Wish
  • 2010Cold Fish
  • 2011Guilty of Romance
  • 2011Himizu
  • 2012Land of Hope
  • 2013Why Don't You Play in Hell?
  • 2014Tokyo Tribe
  • 2015Love & Peace
  • 2015Shinjuku Swan
  • 2015Tag
  • 2015The Virgin Psychics
  • 2015The Whispering Star
  • 2016Antiporno
  • 2017Shinjuku Swan II
  • 2018The Bastard and the Beautiful World
  • 2019The Forest of Love
  • 2020Red Post on Escher Street
  • 2021Prisoners of the Ghostland