Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Name: Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy
Released: November 7, 2014
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 68

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Drafthouse Films | Release Date: November 7, 2014

Summary: A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.

Director: Shion Sono

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 129 min

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TheWrap - Alonso Duralde

Nov 11, 2014

Like so many memorable yet hard-to-describe movies, Why Don't You Play in Hell? takes a ridiculous concept and commits to it fully. You might laugh with surprise or shriek in horror — both, most likely — but you certainly won't dismiss it. Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Marc Savlov

Nov 5, 2014

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. Read full review

The Playlist - Oliver Lyttelton

Nov 4, 2014

Mostly, the film's very funny, Sono displaying a sense of how to frame and time a visual gag that feels positively Zucker-ish. But there are real stakes, and bursts of real feeling too. Read full review

Slant Magazine - Jesse Cataldo

Nov 3, 2014

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. Read full review

Village Voice - Michael Atkinson

Nov 4, 2014

The film's blast of self-mocking overkill can be charming. Read full review

The Dissolve - Scott Tobias

Nov 6, 2014

Alternately exhilarating and tedious, Why Don’t You Play In Hell? is Sono’s tribute to moviemaking—specifically an elegy to 35mm film, though the tone could hardly be called mournful. Read full review

New York Post - Kyle Smith

Nov 5, 2014

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. Read full review

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DedBraneMike

Dec 16, 2014

What a zany little movie. Featuring some performances, a quirky script and pleanty laughs, this is one of the better movies I've seen this year. I reccomend it highly.

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helohe

Apr 18, 2015

I am usually a big fan of japanese movies, but I was quite disappointed in this one. It is neither interesting nor funny. Acting is terrible, the comedy just fails. The movie is also way too long and nothing really happens.

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