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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (English Subtitled)

2014

NR
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3.7 out of 5 stars (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

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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 ›
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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