NR

Available on Prime

(53) IMDb 7.2/10

Ten years ago, the Kitagawa yakuza clan attacked the Muto yakuza clan at Muto's own home, only to have Muto's wife fight back. This unexpectedly left the Kitagawa clan in shambles, with their top hitman Ikegmai wounded and Muto's wife in prison.

Starring:: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidou
Runtime:: 2 hours, 9 minutes

Available to watch on supported devices.

Watch for $0.00 with a Prime membership

Watch with Prime
Start your 30-day free trial

Prefer to rent or buy?

When renting, you have 30 days to start watching this video, and 3 days to finish once started.

More Purchase Options

Send us Feedback | Get Help

By placing your order, you agree to our Terms of Use. Sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. Additional taxes may apply.

Customers Who Watched This Item Also Watched

Product Details

Genres	Drama, Action, Comedy, Horror
Director	Sion Sono
Starring	Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidou
Supporting actors	Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino, Tomochika, Itsuji Itao, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tak Sakaguchi, Tetsu Watanabe, Tasuku Nagaoka, Akihiro Kitamura, Megumi Kagurazaka, Motoki Fukami, Tarô Suwa, Donpei Tsuchihira, Takamitsu Nonaka, Hideo Nakaizumi, Nanoka Hara, Tatsuya Nakajima
Studio	Drafthouse Films
MPAA rating	NR (Not Rated)
Purchase rights	Stream instantly Details
Format	Amazon Video (streaming online video)

Other Formats

Customer Reviews

3.7 out of 5 stars

5 star		40%
4 star		23%
3 star		15%
2 star		11%
1 star		11%

See all 53 customer reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Top Customer Reviews

Completely bonkers and bloody hilarious (literally)

By Robert Hayes on February 22, 2015

Format: Amazon Video Verified Purchase

Shion Sono is a filmmaker that I've several films from before, and I've never been less than impressed. WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL? continues that trend by delivering something completely bonkers, but also really funny and a little bit poignant. The plot, which is a bit difficult to sum up, is about this group of friends who make movies. Through a convoluted series of circumstances, they end up filming a Yakuza feud between the Muto and Kitagawa clans. One thing the film does extremely well is have a sense of fun about itself and not take itself too seriously. There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, and the over-the-top performances help a lot to set a manic tone. The film is also gloriously, even gleefully, bloody and violent. This might turn off a lot of viewers, but the insane levels of violence are largely played for laughs. I don't want to spoil anything specific, but there are several moments that practically made my jaw drop in incredulity. Finally, this film works as a love letter to film and shooting on film. The group of kids (later, adults) who are at the center of the story have a lot of fun shooting stuff on their 8mm cameras, but shooting this Yakuza feud on 35mm provides them with the opportunity they've been waiting for their entire lives. If there's anything negative to say about the film, it's that it might have bitten off a little more narratively than it could chew. At 130 minutes long, it juggles a lot of narrative threads and moving parts, some of which could have been trimmed. For starters there is a fairly long opening sequence that takes place 10 years before the events in the film proper. It sets up all of the necessary characters and relationships, but it could have been a little bit shorter.Read more ›

Comment 4 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

An unexpected masterpiece

By Daniel on March 2, 2015

Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase

When I bought this movie, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It was by mistake, that I bought it. I almost went back and cancelled my order then said, "F#$# it", I gave it a shot. This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It was hilarious, fun and as weird as you'd expect Japan to be. Everyone needs to see this movie. BUY IT. I'm in love with Siono Sono, and I really hope all his movies are like this one.

1 Comment 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

Not quite as well baked as the preview would lead you to believe.

By Zachattack on October 25, 2015

Format: Amazon Video Verified Purchase

Quality of the playback was fine. There are no technical issues from Amazon's side that affect my vote. I just found the movie a bummer. There is a nugget of a great idea and about 30min of really hilarious situations and antics but it is bookended with a gleefully annoying, and possibly unintentional lack of focus that detracts from the core. Relying too much on repeating flashbacks and backstory that try to tie every loose string together.

There is a lot of repetition in the movie, very deliberately but it only served to remind me that no-one really knew what to say in any given situation or why they are pursuing the vision that they possess. A sort of group of misfits driven by what seems to be pure idiocy.

Good trailer, mostly boring movie.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

Fun and MADNESS Sion Sono style!

By Maurizio on February 5, 2016

Format: DVD Verified Purchase

I really like Sion Sono's very original style and thoroughly enjoyed his previous films (especially Guilty of Romance and Cold Fish). He has a tendency to be somewhat long-winded and this film would also have benefited from some good editing, but hey! It's so much crazy fun and the characters are very likable (will not spoil the fun by saying what happens to them!)

ENJOY!

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

…what did I just watch?

By Alex T on November 21, 2014

Format: Blu-ray

Imagine if Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino had a Japanese baby. He/she later grew up to become a filmmaker, and wanted to make a movie about making a movie, all while adopting the directing styles of his/her parents. That movie is Why Don’t You Play in Hell. Having said all that, this is an overall weirdly entertaining film, only because it uses a roughly 2-hour runtime to embody every plausible film idea it sanely can (or, if you’ve already watched it, every implausible film idea it insanely can; both work here, folks). Flaws exist, but there’s no denying the uninterrupted frenzy that very few other films have ever been able to capture.

As you’ve probably heard, yes, there is lots of violence, hence the many comparisons of Sion Sono’s directorial approach to Quentin Tarantino’s. Therefore, it’s pointless to explain why children cannot watch this. At the time of this review, there are no places to stream Why Don’t You Play In Hell, but you can rent or buy it in Digital HD in a couple of services like the iTunes Store or Amazon, where you can also preorder a physical copy that comes with a digital copy. Sono’s past stateside releases tend to not have any extras or special features, so it’s up in the air as to whether the distributor decides to include any for his latest movie.

In simple terms – very simple, actually – the plot involves a yakuza clan leader wanting to make a movie with his daughter to fulfill a wish from his wife, who is about to be released from prison. He decides to abduct a group of aspiring filmmakers to make that happen, and they, too, have dreams and wishes of their own to make a great film. When the world of the actual yakuza conflict collides with the film crew (what better way to intertwine the two groups than projectile puke?Read more ›

Comment 11 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

See all 53 customer reviews (newest first)

Write a customer review

Most Recent Customer Reviews

One of the best in this Japanese comedy/gore genre ever!!

Published 1 month ago by richard

Wonderful but wild

Don't expect this film to make sense, but it sure makes a lot of funnies. Crazy world of Sion Sono. Wonderful but wild.

Published 1 month ago by a reader/viewer

The best movie about movies ever made

The best movie about movies ever made. A poem, a love song, a ballad about the love of movie making and creating. CRAZY and FUN

Published 4 months ago by James Roman

Not my order.

Published 7 months ago by srardon

Horrible!!

Published 9 months ago by sheldon wood

All Style and no Substance.....

This movie is meant to be surreal. So its flaws and overall bizarre-ness could be easily justified by that fact. Read more

Published 10 months ago by KARAKARA

What did I watch?

I like this movie a lot but when your done you may be think what did I just watch?

Published 10 months ago by J Dorsey

Good

Published 11 months ago by shani meed

Horrible movie!!!

Published 11 months ago by King

soooo cash, yo

Published 11 months ago by Riley Keefe

Conditions of Use
Privacy Notice
Interest-Based Ads
© 1996-2016, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates