tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657760020363193414.post2604700583372148031..comments2024-03-14T05:22:19.973-07:00Comments on Asia Shock: Strange CircusPatrick Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01666224685708217873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657760020363193414.post-88656814682340977012011-05-10T10:12:31.077-07:002011-05-10T10:12:31.077-07:00As far as I know he's a Japanese guy. Started ...As far as I know he's a Japanese guy. Started out in poetry before moving to film (although still active as a poet). Artsy-fartsy, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic. Themes of family and perverted love run through his work, to greater or lesser success. Saw Green Fish in Pusan last year -- that rocked.Patrick Gallowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01666224685708217873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657760020363193414.post-62477787763881067782011-05-07T14:11:06.495-07:002011-05-07T14:11:06.495-07:00I'm sorry to hear that Noriko's Dinner Tab...I'm sorry to hear that Noriko's Dinner Table is no good. After the virtual masterpiece of Ai no Mukidashi, I was looking forward to checking out some of his other films...<br /><br />Anyway, I am just curious if you know anything about Sion Sono's background. 園子温 does not seem to me to be a normal Japanese name - if anything, it seems Chinese, or maybe Korean. Yet I've never seen him described as anything but Japanese. Not that I would think less of him if he were Zainichi, and I certainly hope that his Japanese audiences wouldn't either, but...Toranosuke Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00572571651646607355noreply@blogger.com