Toshiro Mifune
Koichi Nishi
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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
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.
- ¥82.54 million
- Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
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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 daughter ...
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- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Crime, Drama
Close. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father's death. It has its roots in Shakespeare 's Hamlet, while also doubling as a critique of corporate corruption.
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.
