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1. Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley
Votes: 14,046
2. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,889
3. Tag (2015)
85 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai
Votes: 8,087
4. 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: 5,004
5. 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: 14,512
6. Suicide Club (2001)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô
Votes: 22,206
7. Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Stars: Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny, Jiji Bû
Votes: 12,735
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: 8,980 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Re:Born (2016)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about.
Director: Yûji Shimomura | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Takumi Saitô, Hitomi Hasebe
Votes: 1,626
10. 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: 5,833
11. 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: 4,702
12. 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: 6,253
13. Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Not Rated | 159 min | Drama, Horror
A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shirô Namiki
Votes: 4,990
14. Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)
91 min | Action
The most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Miyamoto fights against 588 enemies, one after the other. There is no room for error, no room for trivial, outdated, or unconvincing movements.
Director: Yûji Shimomura | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Kento Yamazaki, Arata Yamanaka, Shinji Sasahara
Votes: 907
15. 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: 2,954
16. Everyone Is Psychic! (2013– )
29 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
It happens that many inhabitants of Oita Prefecture in southern Japan have extrasensory powers. One student can read others' minds. he is not alone, however, and soon bands with others, who... See full summary »
Stars: Shôta Sometani, Kaho, Erina Mano, Makita Sports
Votes: 279
17. 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: 965
18. 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
19. 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: 3,350
20. 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: 3,646
21. 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: 395
22. 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
23. The Forest of Love: Deep Cut (2020)
40 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Nothing is as it seems when a charismatic conman and an aspiring film crew delve into the lives of two emotionally scarred women.
Stars: Kippei Shîna, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Eri Kamataki, Kyoko Hinami
Votes: 603
24. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
390 min | Drama, Horror
Manami is targeted by vampires on her 22nd birthday and K, who possesses tremendous power, tries to save her in a raging battle. On that day, young men and women are invited to the hotel where a huge matchmaking convention is being held.
Stars: Ami Tomite, Kaho, Hirotatsu Terabayashi, Megumi Kagurazaka
Votes: 697
25. Shinjuku Swan (2015)
139 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A down-and-out man finds a new job in Tokyo's red-light district as a scout who recruits women to work in the adult-entertainment business.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Gô Ayano, Kôsuke Toyohara, Takayuki Yamada
Votes: 1,260
26. 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: 1,283
27. Everyone Is Psychic!: The Movie (2015)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mika Akizuki, Tokio Emoto, Motoki Fukami, Mizuki Hoshina
Votes: 1,090
28. Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
133 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On this second movie, Tatsuhiko Shiratori moves to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Yûsuke Arai, Kenta Arima, Kokoro Asami, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 289
29. 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
30. 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: 1,264
31. 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: 842
32. 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: 1,306
33. Red Blade (2018)
86 min | Action
When a bullied teen joins forces with two legendary ninja, she learns the art of action. Learning the Edo technique from two masters, Mako takes a stand against the bullies who've ... See full summary »
Director: Takahiro Ishihara | Stars: Yûki Ashida, Kanon Hanakage, Yukio Iketani, Joey Iwanaga
Votes: 53
34. Otaku (1994)
52 min | Documentary
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Jackie Bastide, Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Akitoshi Ashida, Hiroki Hashimoto, Noriko Kato, Yo Kawamorita
Votes: 178
35. 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
36. Prescription Police (2006– )
Comedy
Kiriyama Shuichiro works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. As he is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Kumiko Asô, Kôsuke Toyohara, Eri Fuse
Votes: 251
37. 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
38. 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
39. Love Exposure: The TV-Show
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Sakura Andô, Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, Atsuro Watabe
Votes: 9
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
41. Blind Beast vs Dwarf (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
Monzo Kobayashi is a dime-novel writer. He goes to see the stage of Ranko Mizuki, a star of an all-girls'-operetta company known as Asakusa Revue. Monzo notices a creepy man sitting beside ... See full summary »
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Lily Franky, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Hisayoshi Hirayama, Little Frankie
Votes: 213
42. All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~ (2015)
Comedy, Mystery
Web adaptation of All Esper Dayo. manga featuring an original story.
Stars: Shôta Sometani, Megumi Kagurazaka, Erina Mano, Ken Yasuda
Votes: 12
43. Minna! Esper Dayo!: Bangai hen Esper Miyako e iku (2015 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Erina Mano, Makita Sports, Motoki Fukami
Votes: 63
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. Kokoduna 19-ji (2020)
38 min | Short, Drama
A new and more contagious virus emerged after COVID-19 and forced Japan to live an even more severe self-restraint. During the time of COVID-19 it was necessary to maintain a social ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Saeko Nakajo, Takumi Saitô, Koji Seki, Fumina Suzuki
Votes: 40