Who Starred In The Bad Sleep Book (2025)

1. “It's Not Easy Hating Evil”: The Bad Sleep Well - The Cultural Gutter

  • Apr 13, 2023 · Pingback: “It's Not Easy Hating Evil”: The Bad Sleep Well – Monstrous Industry ... Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the ...

  • For this year’s Switcheroo Month, I decided to write about a lesser known film by one of the most reputable directors around—Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Set in then cont…

2. The Bad Sleep Well | Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune ...

  • The Bad Sleep Well. Akira Kurosawa (director, screenwriter) Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring) Eijiro Hisaita, Hideo Oguni, Ry z Kikushima ...

  • Tokyo: Toho Studios, 1960. Shooting script for the 1960 film. Numeric annotations in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, about a young man who rises to a powerful executive position at a corrupt Japanese corporation in order to seek vengeance for his father's wrongful death.Shot on location in Tokyo and Kyushu, Japan. White titled perfect-bound

3. The Bad Sleep Well: Is the ending botched? - Akira Kurosawa info

  • Aug 31, 2009 · But I do think that the ending of The Bad Sleep Well is still inherently quite weak. ... Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan Book review: Akira ...

  • Discussion on the topic The Bad Sleep Well: Is the ending botched? at the Akira Kurosawa community forums.

4. How Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well Helped Me to Finally Like Hamlet

5. Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well is a masterclass in composition and ...

  • Apr 4, 2019 · Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well is a masterclass in composition and lighting ... acting icon, Toshiro Mifune) flanked by his friend Itakura ...

  • This weekend, I finally got to watch The Bad Sleep Well, Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 dramatic thriller which was the first film to be produced by his own production company. While it’s his samurai films …

6. The Bad Sleep Well - Rotten Tomatoes

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  • In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi (Toshirô Mifune) climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter (Kyôko Kagawa) of company vice president Iwabuchi (Masayuki Mori). 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.

7. The Bad Sleep Well - Janus Films

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

8. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - Cinematic Scribblings

  • Nov 13, 2023 · The Bad Sleep Well is the twelfth of the sixteen Kurosawa-directed films in which Mifune starred, coming a dozen years after the first ...

  • “Hell of a wedding.””Truly bizarre. Best one-act I’ve ever seen.””One-act? This is just the prelude.” Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well (…

9. The Bad Sleep Well (Infinimata Press)

  • Jan 1, 2006 · The Bad Sleep Well is not a bad film at all—in fact, it's a very good film. It's an earnest and even fairly angry movie about a highly ...

  • Even a lesser film by a major filmmaker is still worth seeing. When a director of Akira Kurosawa’s caliber makes a film that doesn’t match his other work, it’s usually head and shoulders above most of the rest of...

10. "The Bad Sleep Well": How "Hamlet" Is It?

  • Mar 7, 2014 · In his 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie claimed that the director's 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well was based on Shakespeare's ...

  • Tom Vick is curator of film at the Freer|Sackler. In his 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie claimed that the director’s 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well was based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The similarities, after all, are clear. Both feature an ambivalent hero on a quest for revenge. Kurosawa himself named Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare his ...

11. Alternate Best Actor 1960: Toshiro Mifune in The Bad Sleep Well

  • Jan 18, 2023 · Toshiro Mifune did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Kōichi Nishi in The Bad Sleep Well. The Bad Sleep Well is often said to be ...

  • Toshiro Mifune did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Kōichi Nishi in The Bad Sleep Well.  The Bad Sleep Well is often said to b...

12. The Art of Deception: Kurosawa's 'The Bad Sleep Well'

  • Oct 18, 2016 · The Art of Deception: Kurosawa's 'The Bad Sleep Well'. Posted by silibrarian. ran-poster. This morning on Twitter a stunning poster of Ran ...

  • This morning on Twitter a stunning poster of Ran reminded me of my awe and wonder for Kurosawa’s films. Yes, I’ve blogged about Kurosawa before but it struck me that Throne of Blood and Ran get muc…

13. The Bad Sleep Well (Film) - TV Tropes

  • The Bad Sleep Well is a 1960 film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. The film opens with the wedding of Yoshiko, daughter of …

  • The Bad Sleep Well is a 1960 film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. The film opens with the wedding of Yoshiko, daughter of Unexploited Land Development Corporation executive Iwabuchi, to Iwabuchi's secretary Nishi (Mifune …

14. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - Scene by Green

  • Jun 19, 2024 · ... Bad Sleep Well, as Akira Kurosawa adapts Hamlet with a severe, noirish cynicism, examining the foundations of bloodshed which the upper ...

  • Only by blackmailing, intimidating, and investigating from the shadows can one vengeful son expose the corporate corruption of mid-century Japan in The Bad Sleep Well, as Akira Kurosawa adapts Haml…

Who Starred In The Bad Sleep Book (2025)

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