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Why Dont You Play In Hell?
Muto and Ikegami are two gangsters who hate each other, but Ikegami is in love with actress daughter of Mutos- Michiko . Meanwhile, Muto attempts to make his wife Shizues dream come true which is to have their daughter appear in a movie. Koji, who is just a passerby, is mistaken for a movie director. Koji then requests to independent film director Hirata to cast Michiko as the leading actress in his film. Their situation soon goes completely wrong.
















December 21, 1985 in Transylvania, Romania

15 March 1975, Ishikawa, Japan


23 January 1950, Fukuoka, Japan

21 September 1994, Naha, Okinawa, Japan


2 August 1973, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

10 July 1966, Osaka, Japan

1951, Japan



18 July 1963, Osaka, Japan



1976, Ehime, Japan


16 November 1955, Kumamoto, Japan

7 July 1964, Nishinomiya, Japan

16 July 1985, Osaka, Japan

October 15, 1942 in Tokyo, Japan



18 August 1992, Kanagawa, Japan




9 August 1954, Tokyo, Japan

21 February 1976, Tokyo, Japan

7 March 1977, Tokyo, Japan




February 26, 2016
Defined by a sanguineous sense of humor and unpretentious spirit, [it] makes for a stylish, self-aware, if somewhat lagging romp about film culture and creative ambitions.
November 07, 2014
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.
November 06, 2014
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.
December 18, 2015
If you can make it till the end, there's one helluva payoff.
June 26, 2016
This is pure midnight movie, all energy and whimsy and cartoonish displays of violence with yakuza soldiers dressed as samurai swordsmen.
November 07, 2014
A blood-soaked gang saga that builds to a madcap battle royal.
November 07, 2014
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.
May 24, 2016
It's sentimentally absurd, violent, frenetic, trashy, romantic and filled with loud pop music.
November 21, 2014
Sono achieves a level of insanity that most filmmakers wouldn't even dare to challenge, turning Why Don't You Play In Hell? into a uniquely decadent cinematic treat that delivers exactly as advertised.
November 06, 2014
Goofball antics and a terrific, raucous finale can't make up for the essential slackness of its repetitive comedy and punk chest thumping.
December 19, 2014
"Why Don't You Play in Hell" is violent and irreverent, packed full with crazy ideas, and about as much bloody fun as you can have in a theater right now.
November 07, 2014
A middle-aged filmmaker's tribute to the kind of epic-sized gangster-romance he used to fantasize about making.