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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Directed by
Sion Sono
Not Rated
2013
2h 9m
Action
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Drama
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7.1
83%
80%
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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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Cast of Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Jun Kunimura
Muto
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Ikegami
Hiroki Hasegawa
Director Hirata
Gen Hoshino
Kouji Hashimoto
Fumi Nikaido
Mitsuko Muto
Tomochika
Shizue Muto
Tak Sakaguchi
Sasaki
Itsuji Itao
Masuda
Jyonmyon Pe
Sato
Hiroyuki Onoue
Detective Tanaka
Tasuku Nagaoka
Mitsuo Yoshimura
Akihiro Kitamura
Hitman
Megumi Kagurazaka
Junko
Daisuke Kuroda
Kinoshita' Crew
Kazuki Namioka
Actor
Sakiko Bokumoto
Waitress
Motoki Fukami
Bartender
Tarō Suwa
Sumita
Hiroshi Honjomaru
Ryuta Sanada
Arata Yamanaka
Suzuki
Ōmiya Ichi
Matsuno
Donpei Tsuchihira
Yoshida
Matsuri Hashimoto
Rokko
Yuki Ishii
Miki
Haruki Mika
Tanigawa
Tetsu Watanabe
Detective Kimura
Shimako Iwai
Masako
Riko Narumi
Yoshiko
Denden
Ramen Shop Owner
Kenjirou Ishimaru
Producer Kinoshita
Hakase Suidobashi
Akaji Maro
Mickey Curtis
Mr. Ono
Kyōko Enami
Mrs. Ootani
Akira Yamamoto
Chiba
Takamitsu Nonaka
Tetsuo Komuro
Hideo Nakaizumi
Iizuka Toshihiro
Tsugumi
Ikegami's Mistress
Yoshiki Takahashi
Manji Edogawa
Nanoka Hara
Young Mitsuko Muto
Yoshino Imamura
Atsuko Fukuda
Sion Sono
Director / Writer
Takuyuki Matsuno
Producer
Takeshi Suzuki
Producer
Why Don't You Play in Hell? Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Samuel B. Prime
A minor character at one point buoyantly asks, "What's 35mm?" Sono's mission is to create a film that answers this vacant, if innocent, question.
Way Too Indie
C.J. Prince
Once the two plots merge, it leads to a massive sequence that's hilarious in its gleeful bloodlust and self-awareness.
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
As much as the film overflows with blood, the movie's other major problem is that it overflows with contrived plot and incident.
The Blue Lenses
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Why Don't You Play in Hell is a frenzy of joy and colour, held together by an unrelenting disinterest in narrative logic.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
Alternately exhilarating and tedious, Why Don't You Play In Hell? is Sono's tribute to moviemaking.
Wall Street Journal
Steve Dollar
A blood-soaked gang saga that builds to a madcap battle royal.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Sono is so pure of heart, so full of enthusiasm and insane imagination and unwavering loyalty to the movie gods, long after the rest of us have stopped believing, that I forgive him everything.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Delivers adrenaline, chutzpah, and fake blood by the bucket-load, continually confounding audience expectations while offering up a twisted valentine to moviemaking in general and the disappearing medium of 35mm film in particular.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
A middle-aged filmmaker's tribute to the kind of epic-sized gangster-romance he used to fantasize about making.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Goofball antics and a terrific, raucous finale can't make up for the essential slackness of its repetitive comedy and punk chest thumping.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Why Don't You Play in Hell? isn't for everyone, but neither was Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Genius is genius, no matter how many audience members may riot.
AV Club
Nick Schager
From sudden zooms and abrupt freeze frames to lengthy tracking shots, slow-motion, and CG-enhanced fantasy interludes, Why Don't You Play In Hell? boasts an aesthetic insanity to match its uninhibited narrative.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A Quentin Tarantino knockoff from Japan, "Why Don't You Play in Hell?" has some of the master's nutty energy but little of his cleverness.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The film's blast of self-mocking overkill can be charming.
Slant Magazine
Jesse Cataldo
Refusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas leads directly to doom.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kara Nesvig
It's a movie that feels perfectly at home in 2014, but wouldn't feel out of place in any other decade.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Irresistible trashy fun in a cross-genre free-for-all.
Variety
Justin Chang
Sion Sono trawls sub-Tarantino B-movie-pastiche territory with this tedious, over-the-top gorefest.
HitFix
Guy Lodge
Weird and woolly and sporadically amusing.
Film.com
David Ehrlich
Quite possibly mankind's greatest achievement.
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