The allegations in opposition to Sono, who directed Nicolas Cage in final yr's 'Prisoners of the Ghostland,' comply with comparable accusations in opposition to a Japanese director and an actor final month.
Japanese director Sion Sono has been accused by two ladies of sexual assault and providing elements in his movies in return for intercourse.
An extended-time worldwide pageant favourite who directed Nicolas Cage and Nick Cassavetes in final yr’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sono, 60, has but to answer the allegations made within the Shukan Josei weekly journal.
An govt at a Japanese movie distributor advised the journal: “Even now, there's a director who has no qualms about saying ‘If you happen to screw me, I’ll provide you with work’. His movies are acclaimed and plenty of actresses need to seem in them. He makes use of that to assault ladies as if it’s nothing. That director is Sion Sono.”
These accusations comply with these made final month in opposition to director Hideo Sakaki and his buddy Houka Kinoshita by a number of ladies. Japan could also be on the verge of a delayed #MeToo motion.
An unnamed actress says that Sono advised her that a number of ladies had been having intercourse with him for a few years as a result of they needed to work in his movies, and that they did nicely within the business due to him, based on Shukan Josei.
She went on to recount how after Sono supplied her an element in one among his movies, he tried to power her to have intercourse with him. When she refused, the director known as one other lady who had beforehand labored with him they usually proceeded to interact in sexual acts in entrance of her. Whereas she was in shock, an assistant director who was current led her outdoors. Assuming he was attempting to assist her, she adopted him outdoors, however the assistant director then tried to take her to a love lodge.
One other actress reported that after Sono had coerced her into intercourse with gives of labor, he advised her, “I need to screw you when you’re speaking to your boyfriend on the telephone.” When she advised him she didn’t have a boyfriend, he allegedly stated, “Effectively get one, I like that form of factor.”
Sono’s 2001 Suicide Membership attracted some consideration on the worldwide pageant circuit, however it was Love Publicity (2008) which proved to be his breakthrough movie, profitable the FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin.
The director has since gained a cult following for his idiosyncractic type, vivid depictions of violence and eroticism, and provocative imagery.
Sono is married to Megumi Kagurazaka, a former pin-up mannequin who has appeared in plenty of his movies. His first little one was born in 2019, two days earlier than he was hospitalized by a coronary heart assault, delaying the manufacturing of Prisoners of the Ghostland.