Muto and Ikegami are two gangsters who hate each other, but Ikegami is in love with actress daughter of Mutos- Michiko . Meanwhile, Muto attempts to make his wife Shizues dream come true which is to have their daughter appear in a movie. Koji, who is just a passerby, is mistaken for a movie director. Koji then requests to independent film director Hirata to cast Michiko as the leading actress in his film. Their situation soon goes completely wrong.
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This is pure midnight movie, all energy and whimsy and cartoonish displays of violence with yakuza soldiers dressed as samurai swordsmen.November 07, 2014
Delivers adrenaline, chutzpah, and fake blood by the bucket-load, continually confounding audience expectations while offering up a twisted valentine to moviemaking in general and the disappearing medium of 35mm film in particular.November 07, 2014
A middle-aged filmmaker's tribute to the kind of epic-sized gangster-romance he used to fantasize about making.November 07, 2014
A blood-soaked gang saga that builds to a madcap battle royal.November 06, 2014
Goofball antics and a terrific, raucous finale can't make up for the essential slackness of its repetitive comedy and punk chest thumping.December 18, 2015
If you can make it till the end, there's one helluva payoff.December 19, 2014
"Why Don't You Play in Hell" is violent and irreverent, packed full with crazy ideas, and about as much bloody fun as you can have in a theater right now.February 26, 2016
Defined by a sanguineous sense of humor and unpretentious spirit, [it] makes for a stylish, self-aware, if somewhat lagging romp about film culture and creative ambitions.May 24, 2016
It's sentimentally absurd, violent, frenetic, trashy, romantic and filled with loud pop music.November 21, 2014
Sono achieves a level of insanity that most filmmakers wouldn't even dare to challenge, turning Why Don't You Play In Hell? into a uniquely decadent cinematic treat that delivers exactly as advertised.November 07, 2014
Sono is so pure of heart, so full of enthusiasm and insane imagination and unwavering loyalty to the movie gods, long after the rest of us have stopped believing, that I forgive him everything.November 06, 2014
From sudden zooms and abrupt freeze frames to lengthy tracking shots, slow-motion, and CG-enhanced fantasy interludes, Why Don't You Play In Hell? boasts an aesthetic insanity to match its uninhibited narrative.