A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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Sion SonoWriter:
Sion Sono (screenplay)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jun Kunimura | ... | Muto | |
| Fumi Nikaidô | ... | Mitsuko Muto | |
| Shin'ichi Tsutsumi | ... | Ikegami | |
| Hiroki Hasegawa | ... | Director Hirata | |
| Gen Hoshino | ... | Koji Hashimoto | |
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Tomochika | ... | Shizue |
| Itsuji Itao | ... | Masuda | |
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Hiroyuki Onoue | ... | Detective Tanaka |
| Tak Sakaguchi | ... | Sasaki | |
| Tetsu Watanabe | ... | Detective Kimura | |
| Tasuku Nagaoka | ... | Mitsuo Yoshimura | |
| Akihiro Kitamura | ... | Hitman | |
| Megumi Kagurazaka | ... | Junko | |
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Motoki Fukami | ... | Master |
| Tarô Suwa | ... | Sumita | |
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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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$5,060, 9 November 2014Gross USA:
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Shion Sono, one of Japan's contemporary cult directors, makes a follow-up to cinephile hits like Suicide Club, Noriko's Dinner Table, Strange Circus, Hair Extensions, Love Exposure, Coldfish and Himizu. After The Land of Hope, his idiosyncratic sci-fi drama shot around the Fukushima disaster, the transgressive Sono makes another instant cult hit with Why Don't You Play in Hell? This definitely won't appeal to a mainstream audience and to be honest, at first I had quite some difficulties watching it myself. It all seems a bit over the top and because of that it felt amateuristic. On the other hand I suppose this is the authentic style Sono is known for. With some patience I endured the first half an hour. Once I got familiar with its peculiarities, irony, meta-references and subversive character, this film started to grow on me. Especially the part of the young movie team that has been procrastinating their film project for years; while this is more of a sideline to the story, Why Don't You Play in Hell? depends on it for its absurd climax. The only thing I couldn't get into was the over-the-top acting. Cool movie with a high DIY vibe, although not flawless.