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A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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| The Blue LensesAlexandra Heller-NicholasWhy Don't You Play in Hell is a frenzy of joy and colour, held together by an unrelenting disinterest in narrative logic. |
| Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungIrresistible trashy fun in a cross-genre free-for-all. |
| Film.comDavid EhrlichQuite possibly mankind's greatest achievement. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaitland McDonagh[Why Don't You Play in Hell? isn't] for everyone-it's not even for every diehard movie buff-but for fans of Asian shock cinema it's a treat. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSono 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. |
| CraveOnlineWilliam BibbianiSmiles and blood and pure, unadulterated affection for everything that cinema is capable of. |
| Slant MagazineJesse CataldoRefusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas leads directly to doom. |
| CultureCatchBrandon JudellThe whole over-the-top on-screen affair is chaotic with loads of crosscutting that lead up to an outrageous half-hour skirmish with so much blood on the screen you can imagine you're watching a tour of a Heinz ketchup factory. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinA grease-glistening banquet of crash-zooms, gore plumes, gurning and chopping... |
| The PlaylistOliver LytteltonMostly, the film's very funny, Sono displaying a sense of how to frame and time a visual gag that feels positively Zucker-ish. But there are real stakes, and bursts of real feeling too. |