Exte: Hair Extensions
Exte succeeds in imbuing its urban nightmare scenario with the director’s trademark societal exposé to be sufficiently interesting for genre aficionados and Sono devotees alike.
Review by John Berra
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Anti-Porno
Sion Sono diverts Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno Reboot into a subversively playful and multi-layered take on the female condition.
Review by Pierre Kapitaniak
Love & Peace
Sion Sono has made an insanely warped family film about a rock star and a turtle.
Mark Stafford
Tag
It’s one of the six films that Sion Sono shot this year, yet neither the five low-budget films nor the short TV serial that preceded Tag hold a candle to it.
Review by Pierre Kapitaniak
Tokyo Tribe
Sion Sono’s manga-based gangsta musical is great fun although not entirely palatable.
Review by Mark Stafford
The Land of Hope
The latest offering from Sion Sono is a slight departure from his usual extremes.
Review by Robert Makin
Himizu
Located in the midst of the devastation in the aftermath of the tsunami of 2011, Sion Sono’s latest shows a society that is not only physically destroyed but also socially falling to pieces.
Review by John Bleasdale
Suicide Club
Maverick Japanese director Sion Sono’s best-known film opens with a jaw-dropping sequence depicting the mass suicide of 54 Japanese school girls at Shinjuku train station.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
Guilty of Romance
In rain-drenched pre-millennium Shibuya, Tokyo, a grotesque discovery is made, the dissected corpse of a woman, her limbs and torso bizarrely mixed with parts of a shop dummy.
Review by Mark Stafford
Cold Fish
Cold Fish seems to be a return to the dark spirit of Suicide Club (2001), with its provocative, inventive gore and an enigmatic, oblique approach to meaning.
Review by Virginie Sélavy