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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.
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. Outswaggered by Yojimbo’s rambunctious ronin, who skulked into the imaginations of ...
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kō Nishimura, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takashi Shimura. Akira Kurosawa’s Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (US: The Bad Sleep Well) is an epic noir drama that sets a yakuza tale with Hamlet themes in the postwar Japanese corporate world.
Darkened by heavy shades of Hamlet, The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of executive secretary Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) who wields patience, paternal guilt, and persistent cunning in bringing a comeuppance to the men responsible for his estranged father's death. The young executive takes years, carefully nursing a plan to ensnare his ...
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- Toshiro Mifune
Jan 10, 2006 · 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.
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Starring: Takashi Shimura, Takeshi Kato, Toshirō Mifune In this tale of corruption and revenge, Mifune’s Mr. Nishi marries the daughter of his employer, the president of a wealthy corporation. The corporation is being investigated on bribery charges, and the death of an employee five years ago is beginning to haunt its highest executives ...
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Overview. In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi.
