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The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Most recently watched by sleestakk
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. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi’s father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father’s death.
Length 150 minutes
Actors
Toshirō Mifune | Masayuki Mori | Kamatari Fujiwara | Takeshi Katô | Kyôko Kagawa | Tatsuya Mihashi | Takashi Shimura | Kô Nishimura | Kyû Sazanka | Someshô Matsumoto | Gen Shimizu | Atsuko Ichinomiya | Natsuko Kahara | Nobuko Tashiro | Ken Mitsuda | Kôji Nanbara | Chishū Ryū | Seiji Miyaguchi | Kin Sugai | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Shirô Tsuchiya | Sôji Ubukata | Susumu Fujita | Kunie Tanaka | Kyôko Ozawa | Hiromi Mineoka | Nobuo Nakamura | Ryôji Shimizu | Gorô Sakurai | Kôji Mitsui | Yoshifumi Tajima | Hisashi Yokomori | Jun Kondô | Akemi Ueno | Ikio Sawamura | Toshiko Higuchi | Yutaka Sada