Sion SONO 園子温
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
日本 2005
108 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.