The Postmodernity in Sion Sono's Violent Aesthetic Films

Abstract

Director Sion Sono became a pioneer of Japanese postmodernist cinema due to his works' distinctive personality and tension stemming from absurdity. This paper explores the postmodernity in Sion Sono's violent aesthetic films through the deconstruction of meta-narrative, the employment of fragmented collage narrative, the shaping of audio-visual elements from the perspective of violence aesthetics, and the decomposition and reconstruction of the meaning of violence through absurdity and black humor.