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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
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WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?

Jigoku de naze warui

Directed by Sion Sono
Japan, 2013
Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis

Hirata and his band of wannabe filmmakers, the self-proclaimed “Fuck Bombers,” will not let anything stop them from making their cinematic masterpiece. And their chance is about to fall into their laps: they just need to learn to collaborate with some yakuza, a former child star, and a hapless nerd.

Synopsis

Hirata and his band of wannabe filmmakers, the self-proclaimed “Fuck Bombers,” will not let anything stop them from making their cinematic masterpiece. And their chance is about to fall into their laps: they just need to learn to collaborate with some yakuza, a former child star, and a hapless nerd.

Our take

Describing this metatextual romp from Sion Sono as a reflexive yakuza epic doesn’t begin to get at the gonzo schemes the Japanese auteur unleashes over its 129 minutes. A film about filmmaking stuffed with sociopaths, sexual deviants and hurricanes of blood, it’s a shot of pure cinematic adrenaline.