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1. Detective Story (2007)
99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kai Atô, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Pâko Hayashiya, Pê Hayashiya
Votes: 833
2. Dead or Alive (1999)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Hitoshi Ozawa
Votes: 8,565 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Outrage (2010)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryô Kase, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 14,663
4. Kamikaze Girls (2004)
102 min | Comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Votes: 8,091
5. Guilty of Romance (2011)
144 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima
Votes: 5,837
6. Cold Fish (2010)
Not Rated | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka
Votes: 14,524
7. Tokyo Tribe (2014)
R | 116 min | Action, Musical
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro crosses the line to conquer all of Tokyo. The war begins.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais, Nana Seino, Shunsuke Daitô
Votes: 3,647
8. Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa
Votes: 8,987 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Bad Film (2012)
161 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
"BAD FILM" is a legendary production that was shot in 1995 over course of year, but went unfinished due to funding difficulties.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Tokyo Gagaga, Yûya Ishikawa, Takeshi Itô, Kôta Mori
Votes: 220
10. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto
Votes: 3,355
11. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
142 min | Fantasy, Horror
Manami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Tsuyoshi Abe, Yumi Adachi, Mika Akizuki, Iku Arai
Votes: 541
12. Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Urns with the Female Body (2000)
59 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Yûya Ishikawa, Yû Kanzaki, Sion Sono, Atsuko Suzuki
Votes: 137
13. Himizu (2011)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Votes: 4,709
14. Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
148 min | Comedy, Drama
It follows a filmmaker who holds auditions for his next project. Several of the actors who fail to win roles participate as extras.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mala Morgan, Garrett Cassell, Sen Fujimaru, Tomoko Fujita
Votes: 969
15. Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm (1988)
90 min
A world-class marathon becomes the clashes between the women's and a men's dormitory. Armed with toy machineguns and pistols, the young people challenge each other.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Hiromi Kawanishi, Sion Sono
Votes: 61
16. Antiporno (2016)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Horror
Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ami Tomite, Mariko Tsutsui, Fujiko, Sayaka Kotani
Votes: 5,010
17. Love & Peace (2015)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Bullied and diminished by his fellow employees, demure and bashful Ryoichi Suzuki finds support in an unusual friendship with a turtle. Together they will share many adventures and finally conquer the world.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Asô, Motoki Fukami, Suidôbashi Hakase
Votes: 1,307
18. The Room (1992)
92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Akaji Maro, Yoriko Dôguchi, Shirô Sano, Sayoko Takahashi
Votes: 279
19. The Forest of Love (2019)
TV-MA | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A small group of student filmmakers and a shy young girl with strict parents are simultaneously manipulated, seduced and abused by an older man. They follow his bidding, even when murder is involved.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Kyoko Hinami, Eri Kamataki
Votes: 2,958
20. Balloon Club Revisited (2006)
93 min | Drama
Mitsuko Murakami puts the passion to balloon in the hot-air balloon Circle "Airheads". The club gathered young people holding a variety of thoughts. But "Airheads" is disbanded not too long... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Motoki Fukami, Yukie Kawamura, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Hiromi Nagasaku
Votes: 144
21. Strange Circus (2005)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Seiko Iwaidô
Votes: 6,258
22. The Bastard and the Beautiful World (2018)
105 min | Drama
The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. (1) Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They ... See full summary »
Directors: Yûichi Kodama, Sion Sono, Kenji Yamauchi, Hikari Ôta | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Megumi Kagurazaka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Fumika Baba
Votes: 103
23. Madly (2016)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world's most visionary directors.
Directors: Bat for Lashes, Gael García Bernal, Anurag Kashyap, Sebastián Silva, Sion Sono, Mia Wasikowska | Stars: Radhika Apte, Kathryn Beck, Justina Bustos, Zoë Castle
Votes: 239
24. The Whispering Star (2015)
100 min | Sci-Fi
A feminine android delivers packages to the scattered humans in the galaxy. With years to spare the android and us have time to contemplate what it is to be human.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Kenji Endo, Yûto Ikeda, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kôko Mori
Votes: 1,286
25. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 396
27. The Land of Hope (2012)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka
Votes: 1,265
28. Be Sure to Share (2009)
109 min | Drama
Shiro is twenty-seven years old and is tormented by his father's terminal cancer diagnosis. He copes by communicating his care and love to his father. We see the father and son relationship... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Akira, Eiji Okuda, Ayumi Ito, Keiko Takahashi
Votes: 465
29. Make the Last Wish (2009)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Sakura Andô, Keisuke Horibe, Lorena Kotô, Mitsuru Kuramoto
Votes: 95
30. Hazard (2005)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Faced by a society of criminals, these three youths avenge their rights.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Jai West, Motoki Fukami, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 843
31. Yume no naka e (2005)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Tetsushi Tanaka, Yûna Natsuo, Jun Murakami, Joe Odagiri
Votes: 349
32. No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2 (2004)
51 min
In an omnibus of three segments, three directors all point the camera at girls who depose of their panties. Many land in front of others, many land in the water, many get lost and a few are... See full summary »
Directors: Reiko Saito, Sion Sono, Shô Tsukikawa | Stars: Hiroshi Aikawa, Ko Kudo, Akane Kurosawa, Arisa Matsunaga
Votes: 61
33. Father's Day (2003)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Two girls and their partners want to visit their father to celebrate Father's Day. However, instead of happy meeting, they will be forced to experience inexplicable things.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Akira Hagiwara, Fumihiro Hayashi, Mitsuru Kuramoto, Takuji Suzuki
Votes: 62
35. 0cm4 (2001)
22 min | Short, Drama
A color-blind man decides to have an operation to cure his vision.
Directors: Sion Sono, Shinichiro Arakawa | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Kumiko Asô, Takuji Suzuki
Votes: 93
36. The Real Body (2000)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shinichirô Arakawa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Kazushi Fueki, Ginji
Votes: 259
38. Kaze (1998)
26 min | Short
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Yôko Higashi, Naoyo Nakamura, Ai Sasaki, Keiko Suzuki
Votes: 50
39. Dankon: The Man (1998)
60 min | Crime
A series of special situations involves a gay cop who encounters ambiguous, erotic games and sex between strangers. Filmed entirely without dialogue.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takeshi Itô, Kenji Kuroiwa, Yusuke Hori, Yûya Ishikawa
Votes: 70
40. I Am Keiko (1997)
61 min | Drama
Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cancer and she becomes obsessed with the passage of time. And so, three weeks before her 22nd birthday, she decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Star: Keiko Suzuki
Votes: 338
42. Jitensha toiki (1990)
93 min | Drama
Under-achievers Shiro and Keita manage to survive delivering newspapers. They are otherwise on their own since their peers had all left for university three years earlier. Passing the ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Sion Sono, Masahiro Sugiyama, Hiroko Yamamoto, Hiromi Kawanishi
Votes: 137
43. A Man's Flower Road (1987)
110 min | Drama
A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Akira Fujiwara, Michiko Hida, Hiromi Kawanishi, Yamamoto Kotetsu
Votes: 92
44. Love (1986)
31 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Hiromi Kawanishi, Sion Sono
Votes: 38
45. I Am Sono Sion! (1985)
35 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist contemplates his life as he approaches his birthday. He reads a few poems and spends time with his friends while thinking about his everyday life.
Director: Sion Sono | Star: Sion Sono
Votes: 151
46. Love Songs (1984)
9 min | Short
Accompanied by the insistent shrilling of an alarm clock and by two love songs, a young man struggles to wake up.
Director: Sion Sono
Votes: 101
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