Toshiro Mifune
Koichi Nishi
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The Bad Sleep Well (Japanese: 悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Hepburn: Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru, lit. ' The worse the villain, the better they sleep ') is a 1960 Japanese neo-noir crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company.
The Bad Sleep Well: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi. A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
- (14K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1963-01-22
A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan. Addeddate.
- 151 min
- 23.7K
- Shadows of the Dark
The Bad Sleep Well. A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan.
- Koichi Nishi
The Bad Sleep Well. In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi (Toshirô Mifune) climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled...
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- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Crime, Drama
Jan 5, 2006 · A gray flannel ghost story in which the living haunt the dead, The Bad Sleep Well (1960) remains the least appreciated of Akira Kuro-sawa’s midperiod collaborations with Toshiro Mifune—a fate for which we have only the other Kurosawa-Mifune films to blame.
The Bad Sleep Well. Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1960 • Japan. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi. A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing THE BAD SLEEP WELL.
