The Bad Sleep Well
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- Runtime
- 150 mins
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.
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.
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
- Kôji 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
- Yoshifumi Tajima
- Hisashi Yokomori
- Jun Kondô
- Akemi Ueno
- Ikio Sawamura
- Toshiko Higuchi
- Yutaka Sada
Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Producers
- Akira Kurosawa
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
