Sion SONO 園子温
UTSU-SHIMI
うつしみ
Nippon Retro ²
While a schoolgirl discovers love and passion, Sion SONO combines this fictional plot with a semi-documentary about different artists who focus on the human body: Butoh master Akaji MARO, photographer Nobuyoshi ARAKI, fashion designer Shinichiro ARAKAWA and Sion SONO himself.
うつしみ
Japan 1999
116 minutes
Production
Anchors Production
World sales
Aichi Arts Center
Cast
Akaji MARO, Nobuyoshi ARAKI, Shinichiro ARAKAWA, Sion SONO, Takuji SUZUKI, Yukiko SAWADA
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.