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Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Jigoku de naze warui?

2013

Sion Sono

Jun Kunimura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Megumi Kagurazaka ...

6.7

1,533

Action. Comedy Two men, Muto and Ikegami, hating each other. Muto desperately wants to help his daughter Mitsuko to star in a movie. Meanwhile, Ikegami falls in love with Mitsuko, knowing that she’s the daughter of his foe. Getting dragged into this complicated situation are the movie director Hirata and a young movie-lover named Koji and the story moves on to an unexpected direction.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A tedious, over-the-top gorefest"	NEG
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"It's full of earthy pleasures, and infectiously charming, in its unrepentantly bratty way (...) [It] might appeal to both the director's diehard fans and people who've never seen a Sono film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite its trashy humor which sometimes seems a bit too exotic to be funny, the film has unquestionably well-done scenes that cover a variety of genres"	NEU
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"Sion Sono is simply having a bit of fun… and if audiences buy into his subversive craziness there is a good deal of bloody fun to be had on the journey."	POS
United States	Nicolas Rapold The New York Times	"Mr. Sono’s nearly 15-year-old script is hit or miss, and most of the patchy film (...) feels like a drawn-out windup to the splattery finale."	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Films about the moviemaking process can be too precious or too cynical, but Sono nails both the love and the exasperation that can go into the enterprise."	POS
United States	Jesse Cataldo Slant	"[It] ultimately lacks the careful complexity of the mammoth 'Love Exposure' (...) Yet the full-tilt pursuit of chaos depicted here has its own singular momentum and an undeniable richness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager AV Club	"A rather canny celebration of the very type of no-holds-barred cinema that it’s peddling"	POS

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