I tried not to do anything, and let him do whatever he wanted for the film.” I thought it’d be a waste to direct him when we have a similar feeling together. We clicked immediately and our chemistry was amazing. I was already thinking that from the script. “When I saw Nicolas Cage in Tokyo a year before shooting, he mentioned wanting to be like Charles Bronson. Another style is like you’re watching animals in a zoo, and you film whatever they’re doing – this film was the latter. “Sometimes I direct every single scene to the actor.
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I was really happy with him.” In Sono’s comedies like The Virgin Psychics, the protagonists tend to exert outsized, melodramatic performances, and Cage, with his bulging eyes and manic grin, fits like a screaming glove. “When Nicolas Cage’s ball explodes, I didn’t have to direct him,” Sono beams like a proud father. The catch? Hero is strapped with various bombs that will detonate if he takes longer than five days, or, in the case of the grenades attached to his testicles, if little Nic gets too excited in its cage – after an early encounter with Beatrice, Hero has a literal explosion in his pants. However, Hero is offered a shorter prison sentence by the Governor (Bill Moseley) if he can rescue the latter’s missing granddaughter, Beatrice (Boutella). As a sign of the plot’s absurdity, Cage plays Hero, a convicted bank robber who’s locked up in the East-meets-West mashup that is Samurai Town. Regardless, Prisoners of the Ghostland is Sono’s Tokyo story, not Ozu’s. I’m not completely anti-Ozu, but I have some reservations.” But when I speak to him in early September over Zoom, he claims, “Maybe, during an interview, I might have said something like that.
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So much so, Sono used to refer to himself as “anti-Ozu”, claiming that real Japanese households don’t resemble Ozu dramas. For the past two decades, though, the Japanese provocateur has specialised in depicting the collapse of family dynamics and traditional values in his home country – whether it’s through incest, murder, or, in Exte, a sexual fetish for a corpse’s hair. Sono, who’s now 59, started out as a part-time poet and part-time pornographer. I thought he would say something (more known) like Love Exposure.” “I asked him which ones he liked best, and he said Antiporno and Noriko’s Dinner Table. “When I met Nicolas Cage for the first time, he told me he was a big fan of my films,” Sono says.
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Really, it’s a Sion Sono film that happens to have Nicolas Cage on board, rather than the other way around. Chameleonic in its genre, the supernatural western juggles crude humour (women critique the ergonomics of Cage’s penis) with poignant reflections on Fukushima (time is literally frozen to prevent another nuclear explosion). The bonkers sci-fi crime-comedy was actually shot in Japan, all the extras are Japanese, and it climaxes with samurai swordfights. Starring Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella, Prisoners of the Ghostland marks Sono’s first American feature – with a caveat.
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In Sono’s latest film, Prisoners of the Ghostland, a woman flees her hometown and home-dimension to cohabitate with the undead in a parallel world known as Ghostland – it’s destined to become a cult movie in more ways than one. In both Suicide Club and The Forest of Love, uniformed students hold hands and leap to their death. In Noriko’s Dinner Table, a 17-year-old girl runs away to join strangers she’s met online. In Love Exposure, Zero Church prey on young loners deprived of affection. “ Love Exposure and Suicide Club were heavily influenced by my experiences there.”Ĭults and gangs, particularly their allure to alienated teenagers, occur throughout Sono’s filmography. I really enjoyed eating there – but I didn’t enjoy all the things that came with it.” In order to escape, he had to join another cult. Before I joined, a cult member told me that food would be provided.
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“When I was 17, I joined a cult because I was completely skint,” Sion Sono casually tells me, via an interpreter, from his home in Tokyo.