Sion SONO 園子温
Heya – The Room
部屋 – The Room
Nippon Retro ²
A killer appears at a real estate agent’s office in search of a room. His demands are unusual, and so the two of them venture out on a train journey in order to find the perfect room. Passing the Tokyo of his childhood, flashbacks of his killings interrupt the scenery. Can there still be a place like home for him?
部屋 – The Room
Japan 1993
92 minutes
Director
Sion SONO
Script
Sion SONO
Cinematography
Yuichiro OTAKA
Music
Kosei YAMAMOTO, Hiroki OKANO
Production
Anchors Production
World sales
Sion SONO
Cast
Akaji MARO, Yoriko DOGUCHI, Shiro SANO, Sayoko TAKAHASHI
About Sion SONO
園子温
Sion SONO was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1961. Having experimented with 8mm film during his studies at Hosei University, he won the Grand Prize at the 1987 PIA Film Festival for his film A MAN’S FLOWER ROAD. His international rise to fame came with LOVE EXPOSURE (2008 / NC ’09). Since then, he has won numerous awards. THE WHISPERING STAR (2015 / NC ’16 and NC ’20) won the NETPAC Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Nippon Connection dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2011.