Sion SONO 園子温

Strange Circus

奇妙なサーカス

Nippon Retro   ² 

STRANGE CIRCUS unfolds the unsettling story of the writer Taeko and her daughter Mitsuko. Between its flashbacks and narrative passages, the threshold of biography and madness is dissolved and results in an extravagant and violent nightmare.

奇妙なサーカス
Kimyo na sakasu

Japan 2005

108 minutes

Director
Sion SONO

Script
Sion SONO

Cinematography
Yuichiro OTSUKA

Music
Sion SONO

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.