  Why Don’t You Play In Hell?  Dir/scr: Sion Sono. Japan. 2013.
119mins  Sion Sono’s rousing, freewheeling, scattershot and
ultimately astonishingly bloodthirsty film is a classic cult
title that will keep midnight movie fans entertained and amused
(as well as possibly a little bemused by its overly complex
over-the-top shenanigans), especially as it really hits its
stride in the final 45 minutes and revels in a sword-fight
sequence that out-gores Quentin Tarantino’s sequence in Kill
Bill: Part 1.  It is B-movie schlock to a large extent, but
filmed with a certain zeal and appreciation of movie in-jokes.
The wonderfully garishly titled Why Don’t You Play In Hell?
(Jigoku de nae warui), which world premiered at the Venice Film
Festival and has been acquired in the US by Draft House Films,
is a playful blending of Yakuza conflict while also acting as
tribute to filmmaking, and while the line-delivery is based
around the shouting technique for most of the time (this is not
a quiet film), there is also a whole l