The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960)
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Synopsis
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Cast
- Toshirô Mifune
- Masayuki Mori
- Kyôko Kagawa
- Tatsuya Mihashi
- Takashi Shimura
- Kô Nishimura
- Takeshi Katô
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Chishû Ryû
- Seiji Miyaguchi
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- Apr 24, 2015
It would be a stretch to call any Kurosawa film feminist. At best, his female characters are benign and background, with rare exception; at worst, they are nasty villains. I tend to overlook this when watching his films because the depth of his compassion is overwhelming.…
Sally Jane BlackApr 20, 2021#madlad Mifune 'It's not easy hating evil. You have to stoke your own fury until you become evil yourself.' I said in my last review of The Hidden Fortress that I wished for more than just thrills derived from the bare plot. Well, now I must contradict myself because…
Lara PopApr 9, 2020The Bad Sleep Well has a superb opening set piece, featuring an arrest at a wedding. It is told through the perspective of the press and the tension of just what is going to happen is hypnotically engrossing. It takes real formal confidence to attempt a twenty minute scene…
Darren Carver-Balsiger - Nov 12, 2025
RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL ACTION! - HEART OF AKIRA, BLADE OF KUROSAWA Kurosawa takes on another beloved Shakespearean tale with this very loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” where a son aims to dismantle one of the powerful heads of a sprawling corporation—an entity he himself works…
Rafael "Mister Movie" JovineApr 13, 2021Ikiru and Seven Samurai broadened Kurosawa's postwar critique to implicate deeper historical flaws in Japanese culture, and The Bad Sleep Well brings his criticisms of past and present into sharp focus in its depiction of the way that contemporary, westernized corporate…
Jake ColeJul 27, 2023Quite a well plotted revenge mystery crime thriller from Kurosawa. His staging and static cinematography deliver an impressively sharp output. Set in the post-war modern Japan, it takes on the greedy corporate structure with an underlying philosophical tone. The drama is…
Michael James - Jul 22, 2020
destroying multiple lives and destining your children to hate you for the sake of a corporate position that will never grant you respect, sustainability or a future retirement. what if Hamlet didn’t get to carry out his revenge and instead lingered on the precipice of true…
Logan KennySep 23, 2025I guess this could be considered underseen or underrated as far as Kurosawa doing Shakespeare is concerned, it definitely doesn’t have the reputation of Ran or Throne of Blood, anyway. Which is a shame as this is a really effective reworking of Hamlet as a…
Josh LewisJul 28, 2026The wedding scene is one of the finest opening sequences I have ever seen in cinema. Kurosawa masterfully uses the widescreen format and the geometry of the frame. Toshiro Mifune plays a more restrained role here, which is even a little unusual. It seemed to me that the…
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- RayRay is "meh" onThe Bad Sleep Well
The ending conpletely ruined this for me. It was far too abrupt and anticlimactic. It felt like the whole movie was leading up to something big and it never came, quite the opposite. It was a fine movie, like a 6/10 before the ending which turned it to a 4. Not a must watch.
blue cat lovedThe Bad Sleep Wellfirst of all, the cinematography of this film is absolutely impeccable. from the lighting to the composition, your eye is always drawn to the right places. additionally, the acting of the cast was so good to the point where i truly felt resentment towards the characters. all the scenes are so…
Justin likedThe Bad Sleep WellOne of the strongest Kurosawa films. The first half was kinda hard to follow but the second half was really great.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long is The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960)?
The movie is 2hr 31min long.
What's The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960) about?
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Who's the cast of The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960)?
- Toshirô Mifune as Kôichi Nishi
- Masayuki Mori as Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi
- Kyôko Kagawa as Yoshiko Nishi
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Tatsuo Iwabuchi
- Takashi Shimura as Administrative Officer Moriyama
- Kô Nishimura as Contract Officer Shirai
- Takeshi Katô as Itakura
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada
- Chishû Ryû as Public Prosecutor Nonaka
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Prosecutor Okakura
Who's the director behind The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960)?
Akira Kurosawa directed The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960).
Who produced The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960)?
Tomoyuki Tanaka produced The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960) (1960).
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