The Bad Sleep Well
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1960 / 151 min.
Gangster thriller full of cynical, grim humour about corruption at a project development company. Kurosawa was inspired by Shakespeare and the film is basically Hamlet in formal business attire, amid an atmosphere of fear, voyeurism and escalating paranoia.
Nishi (an intense Toshiro Mifune) devises a plan to bring down a group of Public Corp. project developers – led by the merciless Iwabuchi. His motivation: revenge for the murder of the father he never knew, a functionary driven to suicide to save face for his superiors.
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1960
Country
JP
Original title
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
Length
151 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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