Sion SONO 園子温
Ai no mukidashi
Nippon Cinema ª
Committing sins in order to confess them, Yu is trapped between his devotion to the man-hating schoolgirl Yoko and the schemes of a bizarre religious cult. The manically complex and frighteningly entertaining story of Yu and his epic journey to the centre of love.
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Ai no mukidashi
日本 2008
237 分
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.