Sion SONO 園子温

Dankon – The Man

男痕 – The Man

Nippon Retro   ² 

An urban fable about a gay police man and a serial killer. Loaded with dark imagery and told without any dialogue, this experimental pink film of one of Japan’s most innovative film makers gave a strong preview of his future masterpieces. A radical monument of the creative potential that unfolded in Japan’s pink film industry!

男痕 – The Man

Japan 1998

60 minutes

Director
Sion SONO

Script
Sion SONO

Production
Anchors Production

World sales
Okura Eiga

Cast
Takeshi ITO, Yusuke HORI, Yuya ISHIKAWA, Kenji KUROIWA

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.

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