Red Beard
1968
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- Overall, The Bad Sleep Well finds Akira Kurosawa in complete control of his craft, and is yet another quality addition to the legendary auteur's oeuvre. Maintaining its firm grip on audience, the film is tense, captivating & thrilling for the majority of its 151 mins runtime before culminating with an ending that hits close to real-life.
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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...
- (19)
- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Crime, Drama
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Yasser Medina Cinefilia. Kurosawa constructs a Shakespearean revenge plot that illustrates, with much pathos, an argument about corporate corruption in...
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
Jan 9, 2006 · Grim and astringent, Akira Kurosawa’s searing condemnation of post-WWII corporate corruption takes direct aim at his prior work’s humanistic hopefulness, burying any trace of optimism under a landslide of gutless cravenness, soul-crushing vengeance, and fatal futility.
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 is one of the best revenge movies of all time. It stars the great Toshiro Mifune as a man seeking revenge against the people who forced his father into committing suicide. Unlike many revenge movies, The Bad Sleep Well doesn't glamorize its subject.
Jan 5, 2006 · Jan 5, 2006. Share. 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.
