Sion SONO 園子温
Keiko desukedo
桂子ですけど
Nippon Retro ²
Keiko, a waitress, lives alone in Tokyo. Three weeks before turning 22, she decides to stay in her room and memorize every single moment until then. We stay with her and experience experimental images meeting hyperreal soundscapes.
桂子ですけど
Japan 1997
61 minutes
About Sion SONO
園子温
Sion SONO was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1961. Having experimented with 8mm film during his studies at Hosei University, he won the Grand Prize at the 1987 PIA Film Festival for his film A MAN’S FLOWER ROAD. His international rise to fame came with LOVE EXPOSURE (2008 / NC ’09). Since then, he has won numerous awards. THE WHISPERING STAR (2015 / NC ’16 and NC ’20) won the NETPAC Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Nippon Connection dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2011.