Shion Sono

Born in Toyokawa in 1960. He began his poetic activity as a teen, and during his college years he shot his first 8mm movies. In 1985 he released the experimental medium-length film I Am Sion Sono!, and in 1990 he shot his debut feature length film in 16mm, Bicycle Sighs, premiering at the Berlinale. He made a name for himself on the international scene with Suicide Club (2001), displaying a macabre, eccentric sensitivity, the hallmark of an unclassifiable filmography that has offered us crowning moments like the astonishing four-hour-long Love Exposure (2008), the disturbing Cold Fish (2010), the flesh and blood portrayal of post-Fukushima Japan in Himizu (2011) and the outrageously funny Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013).

Sitges Film Festival