Year: 1986
Duration: 101'
A Tokyo student is running full out; we see him in a meadow, at university, then swimming in a river. He reappears in his garden, naked, then at home as he eats with his family, and then as he watches TV. In the school’s sports field as he doodles with some chalk. After a violent quarrel at home with his mother, he starts running through the city again, as he traces his path, sometimes with thread, sometimes with chalk. “More than telling a story, I angrily threw at the screen the vital energy of hardcore, which I was a big fan of back then. Nagisa Oshima named this way of filming “direct cinema.” The second part completely changes tone, it’s a very tranquil film which you could say depicts a new dimension of mine. It’s part autobiographical and, except for Kawanishi Hiromi in the role of my little sister, all the real members of my family act in it. […] I carefully described the sense of disquiet of the days when I used to come and go at home without saying anything to anybody and which, now, I look back on almost with nostalgia.”
Biography
film director
Sion Sono
Sion Sono (Toyokawa, Japan, 1961) is an internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker. His movies depict Japanese society in a provocative and violent way, amid a plethora of pop culture references. His most renown films include Suicide Club (2002), which is part of a trilogy on alienation along with Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), winner of the Berliner Zeitung Jury Award, and Love Exposure (2008), winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Caligari Film Award at the Berlinale. Love Exposure is also the first film of the “trilogy of hate,” which includes Cold Fish (2010) and Guilty of Romance (2011). He participated to the Venice Film Festival in 2011 with the feature Himizu, and in 2013 with Why Don’t You Play in Hell. The Torino Film Festival paid tribute to him with a retrospective in 2011. He participated in several TFF editions with his films Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), TAG (2015) and Shinjuku Swan (2015).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Room (1992), Suicide Club (2002), Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), Strange Circus (2005), Hazard (2006), Exte: Hair Extensions (2007), Love Exposure (2008), Cold Fish (2010), Guilty of Romance (2011), Himizu (2011), Why Don’t You Play in Hell (2013), Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), Riaru onigokko (TAG, 2015), Shinjuku suwan (Shinjuku Swan, 2015), Antiporno (2016), Tokyo Vampire Hotel (serie tv/tv series, 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio, suono, produttore/director, story, screenplay, film editing, sound, producer
Sion Sono
fotografia/cinematography
Suzuki Kensuke
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Sono Sion (il giovane protagonista/Young Main Character), Kawanishi Hiromi (la sorella minore/Younger Sister), Sono Michika (l’amica del protagonista/Main Character’s Friend), Sono Izumi (la madre/Mother), Sono Otoki (il padre/Father), Yamamichi Kyousuke, Fujiwara Akira, Yamamoto Kotetsu, Hida Michiko
vendita all’estero/world sales
Pictures Dept.
