Toshiro Mifune
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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 crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. [3] It was entered into the 11th ...
- ¥82.54 million
- Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
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.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1963-01-22
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.
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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
Jan 5, 2006 · Akira Kurosawa died in September of 1998, a month before I began shooting a humble, contemporary version of Hamlet set in Manhattan and filmed on Super 16mm. Another A. K.—Aki Kaurismaki—provided a more provocative influence with his Hamlet Goes Business (1987), a caustic farce concerning the hostile takeover of a rubber-duck factory in modern-day Finland, but as the merest tribute to ...
Akira Kurosawa directed The Bad Sleep Well, a modern-day crime drama starring Toshiro Mifune, in 1960.By then he had already made some of his most celebrated films, including the samurai pictures Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), and Throne of Blood (1957).
Jul 14, 2020 · The Bad Sleep Well – 1960 Kurosawa. Kurosawa’s loose take on Hamlet (about corporate corruption in contemporary Japan) is simply one of the great master’s finest works. The first 20 minutes- the wedding reception- gives the opening reception in The Godfather a run for its money and may be the greatest 20 minute stretch in any Kurosawa film.
