Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.

Antiporno

2016

Japanese

6.3

♡ 54

81%

strong female characters

swearing

Sion Sono Director Asami

Asami as

Ayaka Sasaki as

Manami Usamaru as

Ami Tomite as Kyôko

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.

Tokyo Tribe

2014

Japanese

6.4

♡ 9

58%

Sion Sono Director

Yuki Izumisawa as

Yoshihiro Takayama as Bouncer

Young Dais as Kai Deguchi

Nana Seino as Sunmi / Erika

In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.

Balloon Club Revisited

2006

Japanese

6.2

♡ 1

accidental death

Action

Drama

Sion Sono Director

Noriko Eguchi as

Tamae Andô as

Issei Ishida as

Tomoharu Hasegawa as Murakami

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. Five years after their time in the Balloon Club ended, the members' former club leader brings them back together and rekindles old flames.

Tokyo Vampire Hotel

2017

Japanese

5.9

♡ 3

71%

Sion Sono Director

Arisa Komiya as

Yuka Someya as

Yumi Adachi as Empress / Princess Kaho

Kaho as K

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.

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

2018

Japanese

4.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

japanese film

Sion Sono Director

Gorô Inagaki as

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as

Tadanobu Asano as Daimon

Machiko Ono as Yuko

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. A mysterious relationship develops between Utagui, a little girl who eats songs to live and an artist who can't sing anymore. A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. As they finally reach a beach in Okinawa, they find? Bastards come together on a night dancefloor for a show.

Strange Circus

2005

Japanese

6.9

♡ 10

80%

parent child relationship

principal

Thriller

Sion Sono Director

Yûya Ishikawa as

Yûko Yamada as Yuka

Yuka as

Masumi Miyazaki as Mitsuko Ozawa / Sayuri / Taeko

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.

The Forest of Love

2019

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

100%

Sion Sono Director

Sei Matobu as Azumi Ozawa

Young Dais as Jay Denden

Denden as Shigeru Ozawa

Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Shin

A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.

Exte: Hair Extensions

2007

Japanese

6.3

♡ 4

52%

Comedy

Horror

japan

Sion Sono Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Jirô Tamura

Mirai Yamamoto as Kayo Sugimura

Chiaki Kuriyama as Yûko Mizushima

Hikari Mitsushima as Yuriko Shiina

An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.

Tag

2015

Japanese

6.1

♡ 51

92%

Sion Sono Director

Mao Mita as

Seia Yasuda as

Yuki Sakurai as Aki

Maryjun Takahashi as Jun

Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incidents set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.

Red Post on Escher Street

2020

Japanese

7.2

♡ 5

Sion Sono Director

Tarô Suwa as

Tetsu Watanabe as

Tomoko Fujita as

Mitsuru Fukikoshi as

A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?

Noriko's Dinner Table

2005

Japanese

7.0

♡ 7

64%

Sion Sono Director

Yûya Ishikawa as

Tôru Tezuka as Middle-Aged Man

Yôko Mitsuya as Tangerine

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yuka Shimabara - Yôko

A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

Guilty of Romance

2011

Japanese

6.8

♡ 45

67%

husband wife estrangement

Sion Sono Director

Miki Mizuno as Kazuko Yoshida

Hisako Ôkata as Shizu Ozawa

Kazuya Kojima as Shoji

Kanji Tsuda as Yukio Kikuchi

In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.

Cold Fish

2010

Japanese

7.1

♡ 31

75%

Sion Sono Director

Makoto Ashikawa as

Hideo Nakaizumi as Akio's Brother

Tetsu Watanabe as Takayasu TsuTsui Denden

Denden as Yukio Murata

Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

2013

Japanese

7.1

♡ 25

83%

Sion Sono Director

Tetsu Watanabe as Detective Kimura

Gen Hoshino as Koji Hashimoto

Itsuji Itao as Masuda

Nanoka Hara as Mitsuko Muto

In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.

Suicide Club

2001

Japanese

6.5

♡ 20

63%

Sion Sono Director

Nao Nagasawa as

Kimiko Yo as Kiyomi Kuroda

Kenjirô Tsuda as Mita

Tamao Satô as Nurse Yôko Kawaguchi

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer to this mystery, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

Himizu

2011

Japanese

7.0

♡ 16

100%

Sion Sono Director

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Miki

Tetsu Watanabe as Shozo

Yôsuke Kubozuka as Teruhiko

Anne Suzuki as Waitress

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

Love Exposure

2008

Japanese

8.0

♡ 54

90%

Sion Sono Director

Ayumi Takahashi as Joshikôsei Tatekomorihan

Itsuji Itao as Koike no Chichi

Atsuro Watabe as Tetsu

Hikari Mitsushima as Yôko

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

Hazard

2005

Japanese

6.7

♡ 9

63%

Action

Crime

Drama

Sion Sono Director

Austin Basis as Angry Deli Vigilante

Carson Grant as Bruce Hack

Joe Odagiri as Shin

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Won

Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.

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Guilty of Romance

Cold Fish

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Suicide Club

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Love Exposure

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