The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
- Original title
- 悪い奴ほどよく眠る
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Genre
- drama film, film noir
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Rated
- 6
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 285 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man infiltrates a corrupt company to avenge his father's death. He slowly uncovers a web of corporate betrayal and cover-ups.
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What happens
The Bad Sleep Well (Japanese: 悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Hepburn: Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru; lit. 'The worse they are, the better they sleep') is a 1960 Japanese neo-noir crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company to expose the men responsible for his father's death. It draws upon Shakespeare's Hamlet, while doubling as a critique of corporate corruption. It is one of four films, along with Drunken Angel (1948), Stray Dog (1949) and High and Low (1963), in which Kurosawa explores the film noir genre. Like Kurosawa's next two movies with Mifune, Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962), Mifune's character is "a lone hero fighting against overwhelming odds and corrupt authorities." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Yojimbo (1961)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.