Artist of the Year 2019: Sion Sono
I didn’t write anything for Sion Sono’s year, since at the time, this diary didn’t exist, and also because by the end of 2019, I didn’t really care for his movies. I was particularly put off my his depiction and treatment of female characters, and found the “it’s a critique!” defence facile. To see him now accused of sexual assault isn’t quite surprising. To quote someone from Twitter, I don’t mean “in a ‘haha I saw this coming and you didnt’ way but in a ‘men can’t ironically include panty shots in ther film’ way”.
Movies are listed in watch order
性戯の達人 女体壺さぐり Teachers of Sexual Play: Modelling Vessels with the Female Body (2000)
