Sion SONO 園子温

Exte – Hair Extensions

エクステ

Nippon Retro   ² 

In SONO’s bizarre J-horror parody hair fetishist Yamazaki steals the corpse of a young girl whose hair strangely grows out of body orifices and wounds. He sells the strands of hair as extensions to beautify fashion-conscious customers of a hair salon - with murderous consequences …

エクステ

Japan 2007

113 minutes

Director
Sion SONO

Script
Sion SONO, Masaki ADACHI, Makoto SANADA

Cinematography
Hiroo YANAGIDA

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.