Sion SONO 園子温
The Land Of Hope
希望の国
Nippon Cinema ª
Two years after Japan's nuclear disaster that followed the massive earthquake, Sion SONO stages a post-catastrophic science fiction drama that keeps the audience at a distance, so that actual events appear like inconceivable fiction that could never possibly become reality.
希望の国
Kibo no kuni
Japan 2012
133 minutes
Production
"The Land of Hope" Film Partners, Bitters End, pictures dept., Third Window Films
World sales
pictures dept.
Cast
Isao NATSUYAGI, Naoko OTANI, Jun MURAKAMI, Megumi KAGURAZAKA, Yutaka SHIMIZU
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.