Even great directors can make turkeys, sometimes without much obvious change in their style or obsessions. Akira Kurosawa's many adaptations of literary classics include both the mind-bending 1950 masterpiece "Rashomon" and 1951's lugubrious, now little-seen "Hakuchi (The Idiot)," with the latter made right after the former.
I don't know that Sion Sono can be described as "great," though he is among the most interesting and ambitious Japanese directors of his generation. I do know that despite its cool title and wham-bang trailer, his overblown action comedy "Jigoku de Naze Warui (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)" is also among his worst films. But then, I found the sequence of endlessly crashing cop cars in "The Blues Brothers" (1980), celebrated by some as a laugh riot, a total bore.
I am evidently in the minority: "Why Don't You Play in Hell?" won the audience award in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, where it had its world premiere.