1960 | Japan | Fiction

Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)

  • Japanese English 150 mins
  • Director | Akira Kurosawa
  • Writer | Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijiro Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
  • Producer | Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka

STATUS: Released

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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.

Corruption Revenge Noir Corporate Betrayal
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The Criterion Collection
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