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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.
Original Release
09/15/1960
US Release
10/05/1962
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Toshirô Mifune | Kôichi Nishi |
| Masayuki Mori | Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi |
| Kyoko Kagawa | Yoshiko Nishi |
| Tatsuya Mihashi | Tatsuo Iwabuchi |
| Takashi Shimura | Administrative Officer Moriyama |
| Ko Nishimura | Contract Officer Shirai |
| Takeshi Katô | Itakura |
| Kamatari Fujiwara | Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada |
| Chishû Ryû | Public Prosecutor Nonaka |
| Seiji Miyaguchi | Prosecutor Okakura / Public Prosecutor Okakura |
Directors
Writers
Hideo Oguni, Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Toshirô Mifune | Kôichi Nishi |
| Masayuki Mori | Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi |
| Kyoko Kagawa | Yoshiko Nishi |
| Tatsuya Mihashi | Tatsuo Iwabuchi |
| Takashi Shimura | Administrative Officer Moriyama |
| Ko Nishimura | Contract Officer Shirai |
| Takeshi Katô | Itakura |
| Kamatari Fujiwara | Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada |
| Chishû Ryû | Public Prosecutor Nonaka |
| Seiji Miyaguchi | Prosecutor Okakura / Public Prosecutor Okakura |
| Kôji Mitsui | Reporter A |
| Ken Mitsuda | Public Corporation President Arimura |
| Nobuo Nakamura | Legal Adviser |
| Susumu Fujita | Detective |
| Koji Nanbara | Prosecutor Horiuchi / Public Prosecutor Horiuchi |
| Gen Shimizu | Managing Director Miura |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | Reporter B |
| Someshô Matsumoto | Construction Company President Hatano |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | ADA secertary / ADA Secretary |
| Kyû Sazanka | Construction Company Executive Director Kaneko |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Akira Kurosawa | Producer |
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
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