Sion SONO 園子温
Why Don't You Play In Hell?
地獄でなぜ悪い
Nippon Cinema ª
WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? shows what happens when a film team gets caught in the middle of a yakuza gang war. In his newest cinematic excess, Sion SONO orchestrates the biggest blood bath the screen has seen since KILL BILL. It also features the most insanely catchy tooth paste commercial of all times. If hell is this much fun, why would anyone want to go to heaven?
地獄でなぜ悪い
Jigoku de naze warui
Japan 2013
119 minutes
Production
Bitters End, Gansis, T-Joy, King Records
World sales
Elle Driver
Cast
Jun KUNIMURA, Shinichi TSUTSUMI, Fumi NIKAIDO, Hiroki HASEGAWA, Gen HOSHINO
About Sion SONO
園子温
Sion SONO was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1961. Having experimented with 8mm film during his studies at Hosei University, he won the Grand Prize at the 1987 PIA Film Festival for his film A MAN’S FLOWER ROAD. His international rise to fame came with LOVE EXPOSURE (2008 / NC ’09). Since then, he has won numerous awards. THE WHISPERING STAR (2015 / NC ’16 and NC ’20) won the NETPAC Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Nippon Connection dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2011.