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FILM DIRECTOR

Sion Sono

1961 - Today

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Sion Sono (園 子温, Sono Shion, born December 18, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, author, and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sion Sono has received more than 924,300 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sion Sono is the 719th most popular film director (up from 891st in 2019), the 949th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,044th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 920k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sion Sono ranks 719 out of 1,581Before him are Benjamin Christensen, Matt Reeves, Baz Luhrmann, Sergei Gerasimov, Baltasar Kormákur, and Phillip Noyce. After him are Karel Lamač, Erik Balling, Robert Z. Leonard, Sergei Bodrov, András Kovács, and Rosa von Praunheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Sion Sono ranks 136Before him are Andrey Kurkov, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Timur Bekmambetov, Ronnie Brunswijk, Kazuki Takahashi, and Vladimir Potanin. After him are Eugenio Derbez, Phil Campbell, Veselin Vujović, Alexander Bard, Juha Sipilä, and Dragiša Binić.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sion Sono ranks 949 out of 6,048Before him are Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Shinji Kagawa (1989), Kenji Kawai (1957), and Peter Shirayanagi (1928). After him are Koichi Tanaka (1959), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Uchida Kōsai (1865), and Akira Ifukube (1914).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Sion Sono ranks 35Before him are Osamu Dezaki (1943), Juzo Itami (1933), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), and Gorō Miyazaki (1967). After him are Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Yasushi Akimoto (1958), Tadashi Imai (1912), Kihachi Okamoto (1924), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), and Kei Kumai (1930).

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