The Bad Sleep Well | |
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Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
Written by | Hideo Oguni Eijirō Hisaita Akira Kurosawa Ryūzō Kikushima Shinobu Hashimoto |
Based on | Hamlet by William Shakespeare (uncredited)[1] |
Produced by | Akira Kurosawa Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Starring | Toshiro Mifune Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Takashi Shimura Tatsuya Mihashi |
Cinematography | Yuzuru Aizawa |
Edited by | Akira Kurosawa |
Music by | Masaru Sato |
Production companies | Toho Studios Kurosawa Productions |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 151 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥82.54 million[2] |
Box office | ¥52.28 million[2] |
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.[3] It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
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 draws upon Shakespeare's Hamlet,[4] while also doubling as a critique of corporate corruption.[5] 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] Like Kurosawa and Mifune's next two movies, Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962), Mifune's character is "a lone hero fighting against overwhelming odds and corrupt authorities."[6]
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