Jigoku de naze warui
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
(c)2012 WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL? Film Partners
(c)2012 WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL? Film Partners
- Release Date
- September, 28th, 2013
- Running Time
- 130 min
- Genre
- Action/Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DCP
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- KUNIMURA Jun ── MUTO Taizo
- TSUTSUMI Shinichi ── IKEGAMI Jun
- NIKAIDO Fumi ── MUTO Mitsuko
- HASEGAWA Hiroki ── HIRATA Don
- HOSHINO Gen ── HASHIMOTO Koji
[ Staff ]
- MORIYAMA Atsushi ── Executive Producer
- SONO Sion ── Screenplay
- YAMAMOTO Hideo ── Cinematography
- KOMIYA Hajime ── Sound Recording
- ONO Akira ── Lighting
- ITO Junichi ── Editor
- SONO Sion ── Music
[ Production Company ]
Bitters End
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
KING RECORDS, T-JOY
[ Story ]
A labor of love for director Sono Sion, who revised a script he wrote twenty years ago and finally brought it to the screen. It presents a frenetic and sometimes ultraviolent depiction of yakuza and amateur filmmakers working together to make a movie. An official selection of the Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti section in 2013.
Gang boss Muto (Kunimura Jun) decides to produce a film starring his beloved daughter Mitsuko (Nikaido Fumi ). Cinephile Hirata (Hasegawa Hiroki), passerby Hashimoto (Hoshino Gen), and even rival gang boss Ikegami (Tsutsumi Shinichi) get caught up in the project and the shoot gets under way, but...
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2013 Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti
2013 L'Etrange Festival, Feature Film Competition, Audience Award
2013 Toronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Blackberry People's Choice Award
[ Contact (International) ]
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