I Am Sion Sono + Tokyo Cabbageman K

Director: Sion Sono, Sion Sono

1985 / 103min / DCP

Long before his genre-bending films became favorites at international film festivals, Sono was a whirlwind force in the arts, an enfant terrible who tackled poetry and experimental theater before moving on to cinema. Attacking the new medium with gusto, Sono produced this ebullient, provocative, and highly personal short which explores the potential role of film as a part of his larger body of work, and displays the same rambunctious, reckless energy that distinguishes his later features. Screens with Agata’s debut Tokyo Cabbageman K, a feral adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, about a young man who wakes up to find that he has turned into a cabbage.