The Sion Sono

Directed by Arata Oshima son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima who had praised Sonos early work before his passing this documentary gives insight into the man the poet the painter the scriptwriter the husband and the boy who will eventually grow up to be the Sion Sono Lineage history and the past meeting the present are themes in this film in which Oshima connects the dots in Sonos creative life by taking the camera to the site of his upbringing and following the production of his most recent film The Whispering Star