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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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- 8 wins & 11 nominations total
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- TriviaThe main characters who are amateur filmmakers watch a trailer they have made for their own film called "The Blood of Wolves", though they haven't actually made the movie itself yet, and never do. That was the working title of a movie later called Kenkichi (2012), that Sion Sono and Tak Sakaguchi were working on around the same time as this film. That film Kenkichi was also never made.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Horror's Greatest: Japanese Horror (2024)
- SoundtracksConcerto Pour Une Voix
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Tokyo gore with a hit of influence from Guy Richie.
It was the perfect midnight movie with such an over the top cartoonish violence about an Amateur filmmaker who stumbles upon the opportunity of a life time (or as he sees it, a gift from the film God) when a young man needs his help in making a movie after getting caught up with a Yakuza boss' daughter.
A series of events with a large ensemble cast that wove together perfectly.
This movie was strange but so entertaining I did not stop smiling throughout the whole thing
It was the perfect midnight movie with such an over the top cartoonish violence about an Amateur filmmaker who stumbles upon the opportunity of a life time (or as he sees it, a gift from the film God) when a young man needs his help in making a movie after getting caught up with a Yakuza boss' daughter.
A series of events with a large ensemble cast that wove together perfectly.
This movie was strange but so entertaining I did not stop smiling throughout the whole thing
- bbickley13-921-58664
- Nov 8, 2014
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $28,534
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,060
- Nov 9, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $1,265,872
- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) officially released in India in English?
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