The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
(Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/scope 151m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Synopsis:
An updating of Shakespeare's Hamlet set amid the underworld of the Yakuza.
Review:
Another of its director's western borrowings, albeit undeclared, a cathartic bloodbath averted by a restoration of the status quo. The widescreen is thoughtfully used and the acting more restrained than usual, but this is a minor work.
(Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/scope 151m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Synopsis:
An updating of Shakespeare's Hamlet set amid the underworld of the Yakuza.
Review:
Another of its director's western borrowings, albeit undeclared, a cathartic bloodbath averted by a restoration of the status quo. The widescreen is thoughtfully used and the acting more restrained than usual, but this is a minor work.
(Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/scope 151m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Synopsis:
An updating of Shakespeare's Hamlet set amid the underworld of the Yakuza.
Review:
Another of its director's western borrowings, albeit undeclared, a cathartic bloodbath averted by a restoration of the status quo. The widescreen is thoughtfully used and the acting more restrained than usual, but this is a minor work.