Trivia

He was admitted to Berkeley University where he stayed for 15 months. However he never studied there as he was spending his time watching films.

He likes the films of John Cassavetes and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

He loves Mahler, Beethoven and Mozart.

Sono's wife, actress Megumi Kagurazaka, gave birth to their first child on 2 February 2020.

Suffered a heart attack on 7 February 2019 at his Shinjuku, Tokyo residence.

His wife, Megumi Kagurazaka, is an actress. She has starred in ten of his films: Cold Fish (2010), Guilty of Romance (2011), Himizu (2011), The Land of Hope (2012), all four versions of Everyone Is Psychic! (2013), Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013), Love & Peace (2015), The Whispering Star (2015), both versions of Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017), and the first short "Don't Shoot the Pianist!" of the omnibus film The Bastard and the Beautiful World (2018).