The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi’s father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father’s death.
Akira Kurosawa, Shirō Moritani, Yoshimitsu Banno
Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Kō Nishimura, Kyū Sazanka, Someshō Matsumoto, Gen Shimizu, Atsuko Ichinomiya, Natsuko Kahara, Nobuko Tashiro, Ken Mitsuda, Kôji Nanbara, Chishū Ryū, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kin Sugai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Shirō Tsuchiya, Sōji Ubukata, Susumu Fujita, Kunie Tanaka, Kyōko Ozawa, Hiromi Mineoka, Nobuo Nakamura, Ryôji Shimizu, Gorô Sakurai, Kōji Mitsui, Yoshifumi Tajima, Hisashi Yokomori, Jun Kondô, Akemi Ueno, Ikio Sawamura, Toshiko Higuchi, Yutaka Sada
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