SYNOPSIS: 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 | Toshiro Mifune |
| Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi | Masayuki Mori |
| Tatsuo Iwabuchi | Tatsuya Mihashi |
| Moriyama | Takashi Shimura |
| Keiko Nishi | Kyoko Kagawa |
| Contract Officer Shirai | Kô Nishimura |
| Itakura | Takeshi Kato |
| Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada | Kamatari Fujiwara |
| Public Prosecutor Nonaka | Chishu Ryu |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Screenplay | Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography | Yuzuru Aizawa |
| Editing | Akira Kurosawa |
| Production design | Yoshiro Muraki |
| Costume design | Shoji Kurihara |
By January 05, 2006
A gray flannel ghost story in which the living haunt the dead, The Bad Sleep Well (1960) remains the least appreciated of Akira Kuro-sawa’s midperiod collaborations with Toshiro Mifune—a Read more »
By January 05, 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 Read more »
