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Mar 7, 2014 · In his 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie claimed that the director’s 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well was based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The similarities, after all, are clear. Both feature an ambivalent hero on a quest for revenge.
Nov 8, 2019 · Altering Hamlet for the postwar period. The Bad Sleep Well is the most adventurous of Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, removing most of Hamlet’s iconic scenes altogether.
Jan 5, 2006 · The Bad Sleep Well: Shakespeare’s Ghost. By Michael Almereyda. Essays —. Jan 5, 2006. A kira 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.
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It draws upon Shakespeare's Hamlet, while also doubling as a critique of corporate corruption. It is one of four films, along with Drunken Angel (1948), Stray Dog (1949) and High and Low (1963), in which Kurosawa explores the film noir genre. [3]
Sep 26, 2019 · By Mara Wilson | September 26, 2019. I hated Hamlet. I loved everything else we read in my 12th grade literature class, and I loved all of Shakespeare’s other plays. Well, nearly all: Antony and Cleopatra just felt like a more dramatic version of Ross and Rachel from Friends (which I also didn’t like), and A Winter’s Tale just confused me.
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.
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 (Kyôko Kagawa) of...
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