Rent The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
3.9 of 5 from 103 ratings
2h 25min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) is a grieving son seeking revenge for the 'suicide' of his father. By assuming a new identity he rises through the ranks of the Public Corporation and cynically marries the President's daughter to better infiltrate the company and expose the corrupt practice that was responsible for his father's death. However, as Koichi falls in love with his wife, disaster looms.
- Actors:
- Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Chishû Ryû, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kôji Mitsui, Ken Mitsuda, Nobuo Nakamura, Susumu Fujita, Kôji Nanbara
- Directors:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producers:
- Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Writers:
- Hideo Oguni, Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Aka:
- Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
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- 10 Films to Watch if You Like All Is True, A Few More Screen Princes, Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch If You Like..., Shakespeare in Disguise, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Akira Kurosawa, Top 10 Golden Bear Winners, Top Films
- Countries:
- Japan
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Reviews (1) of The Bad Sleep Well
Hamlet the Salaryman - The Bad Sleep Well review by griggs
Revenge has rarely looked this stylish. Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well swaps swords for suits, turning Hamlet into a boardroom coup played out in glass towers and smoke-filled backrooms. The murdered king is now a disgraced executive, the court a nest of calculating bureaucrats, and the avenger a son-in-law with a plane honed to cut without a blade in sight.
Toshiba Mifune is magnetic. Known for his volcanic bursts, here he plays it cool—controlled, calculating, his charisma simmering like a fuse. Each smile is a provocation; each pause a trap.
It’s paced with precision, never wasting a step. Conversations spark and sting, while Kurosawa turns silence into a weapon, letting glances and stillness land like well-aimed blows. Like Shakespeare’s prince, Nishi walks the knife edge between justice and self-destruction—and Mifune makes every moment of that balancing act a thrill to watch.
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