Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
- director: Sion Sono
- actor: Fumi Nikaidô Gen Hoshino Hiroki Hasegawa Jun Kunimura Shinichi Tsutsumi Tomochika
- writer: Sion Sono
Synopsis:
A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud in this wild, perverse and blood-soaked orgy of outrageousness from cult director Sion Sono (“Suicide Club”).
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