The Forest of Love (Japan, 2019)
Japanese auteur Sion Sono had his first taste of the streaming market in 2017 when his 8-episode miniseries, Tokyo Vampire Hotel, saw a worldwide premiere...
Anti-Porno (Japan, 2016) [JAPAN CUTS 2017]
With any Sono Sion film you expect to get something unusual. With his previous films including his ‘hate’ trilogy of Love Exposure (2008), Cold Fish (2010)...
Five Flavours Film Festival 2016 Report
Warsaw has had a troubled history. Located in Central Europe, it has been passed between empires and dynasties, been pillaged and seen golden ages since...
The Whispering Star (Japan, 2015) [JAPAN CUTS 2016]
One of six features completed by the exhaustively prolific Sion Sono in 2015 (perhaps in an unofficial competition with Takashi Miike to determine who is...
Tag (Japan, 2015) [JFF2015AU]
Tag, you’re it! We have another Sion Sono film to review and this one sees him venturing into the teen survival genre for the first...
The Room (Japan, 1992)
Navigating the rental property market in a major city can be a patience testing experience, but Sion Sono turns the search for the right apartment into...
Best of Asian Cinema in 2014
As the year draws to a close, the time has come for VCinema contributors to take a look back at 2014 and select their Asian...
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan, 2013) [Japan Cuts/NYAFF 2014]
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? is based on a fifteen year old screenplay written by director Sion Sono that he reportedly didn’t make many...
JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema, July 10-20, 2014
The eighth edition of JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema will run from July 10th to 20th, 2014. Twenty-seven titles will...
Cold Fish (Japan, 2010)
The behind the scenes activities of a fish shop may not sound like suitable subject matter for a shocking crime thriller, but the cruelly compelling...