The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
151 min
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.
- Release date
- September 15, 1960
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Masaru Satō
- Budget
- $229,000
- Box office
- $144,000
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Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Kôichi Nishi
- Masayuki Mori as Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada
- Takeshi Katō as Itakura
- Kyōko Kagawa as Yoshiko Nishi
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Tatsuo Iwabuchi
- Takashi Shimura as Administrative Officer Moriyama
- Kō Nishimura as Contract Officer Shirai
- Kyū Sazanka as Construction Company Executive Director Kaneko
- Someshô Matsumoto as Construction Company President Hatano
- Gen Shimizu as Managing Director Miura
- Atsuko Ichinomiya as Mrs. Ariyama
- Natsuko Kahara as Mrs. Furuya
- Nobuko Tashiro as Mrs. Moriyama
- Ken Mitsuda as Public Corporation President Arimura
- Kōji Nanbara as Public Prosecutor Horiuchi
- Chishū Ryū as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Prosecutor Okakura
- Kin Sugai as Tomoko Wada
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as ADA Secretary
- Shirô Tsuchiya as Construction Company Employee #1
- Susumu Fujita as Detective
- Kunie Tanaka as Hitman
- Nobuo Nakamura as Legal Adviser
- Kōji Mitsui as Reporter A
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa · Director
- Hideo Oguni · Writer
- Eijirô Hisaita · Writer
- Akira Kurosawa · Writer
- Ryûzô Kikushima · Writer
- Akira Kurosawa · Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Masaru Satō · Composer
- Yuzuru Aizawa · Cinematographer
- Akira Kurosawa · Editor
- Yoshirô Muraki · Production designer