#319: KUROSAWA, Akira: The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

KUROSAWA, Akira (Japan)
The Bad Sleep Well [1960]
Spine #319
DVD


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.

150 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
in Japanese
2:35:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2006
Director/Writers

Kurosawa was 50 when he directed The Bad Sleep Well.

Eclipse Series 7: One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
#413: Drunken Angel (1948)
Eclipse Series 7: Scandal (1950)
Eclipse Series 7: The Idiot (1951)
#221: Ikiru (1952)
#2: Seven Samurai (1954)
Eclipse Series 7: I Live In Fear (1955)

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Fourteen-page booklet featuring essays by Chuck Stephens and Michael Almereyda.

Commentary

None.

Documentary

30-minutes on the making of The Bad Sleep Well.

Original theatrical trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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