The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Akira Kurosawa
Genres : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Status : Released
Released : Sep 19, 1960
Length : 150 minutes
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune
- Masayuki Mori
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Takeshi Katō
- Kyōko Kagawa
- Tatsuya Mihashi
- Takashi Shimura
- Kō Nishimura
- Kyū Sazanka
- Someshō Matsumoto
- Gen Shimizu
- Atsuko Ichinomiya
- Natsuko Kahara
- Nobuko Tashiro
- Ken Mitsuda
- Kōji Nanbara
- Chishū Ryū
- Seiji Miyaguchi
- Kin Sugai
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Shirō Tsuchiya
- Sōji Ubukata
- Susumu Fujita
- Kunie Tanaka
- Kyōko Ozawa
- Hiromi Mineoka
- Nobuo Nakamura
- Ryôji Shimizu
- Gorô Sakurai
- Kōji Mitsui
- Yoshibumi Tajima
- Hisashi Yokomori
- Jun Kondô
- Akemi Ueno
- Ikio Sawamura
- Toshiko Higuchi
- Yutaka Sada
Crew
- Writer : Hideo Oguni
- Writer : Akira Kurosawa
- Writer : Ryuzo Kikushima
- Producer : Akira Kurosawa
- Original Music Composer : Masaru Satō
- Director : Akira Kurosawa
- Writer : Eijiro Hisaita
- Producer : Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Editor : Akira Kurosawa
- Writer : Shinobu Hashimoto
- Director of Photography : Yuzuru Aizawa
- Assistant Camera : Takao Saitō
- Production Design : Yoshirō Muraki
- Costume Design : Shoji Kurihara
- Sound Recordist : Fumio Yanoguchi
- Sound Effects Editor : Ichirô Minawa
- Assistant Director : Yoshimitsu Banno
- Assistant Director : Shirō Moritani
- Original Story : William Shakespeare