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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

Jigoku de naze warui (original title)
| Action, Comedy, Drama | 7 November 2014 (USA)
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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.

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Mitsuo Yoshimura
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Motoki Fukami ...
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Tarô Suwa ...
Sumita
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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.

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$5,060 (USA) (7 November 2014)

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A film made for film lovers
19 November 2013 | by (Hong Kong) – See all my reviews

I watched this movie few days ago and it is the first Sono Sion movie I have ever watched in cinema. The movie is quite funny with bloody scenes and mad characters (especially the film producer/director played by Hiroki Hasegawa) as Sono always does. You can say that the theme is actually about 35mm film and enthusiasm towards filmmaking (or in general pursuing dream). The thing that touches me (as non film geek) is that film encourage audience to get crazy for our dreams and wild out for it (I think at this point is quite similar to Love Exposure). I would recommend this movie to film lovers but in my viewpoint, this probably cannot really come close to Love Exposure.
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