Skip to site content
Sat-Sun, Jan 22-23 at 2:10pm

THE BAD SLEEP WELL

  • Dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Japan
  • 1960
  • 150 min.
  • NR
  • 35mm

In Japanese with English subtitles

  • Assistive Listening
  • Subtitled
  • Hearing Loop
THE BAD SLEEP WELL

Part of Shakespeare/Kurosawa x3 and Weekend Classics.

Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune as a young executive who hunts down his father’s killer, Kurosawa combines elements of “Hamlet” and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan. Screening in 35mm.

...An aggressive and chilling drama of modern-day Japan, exposing a fringe of ‘big business’ in the forthright manner of an American gangster film…. It is to Kurosawa's credit that he has staged what amounts to cliches in this type of strongarm fiction in a way that makes them seem fresh and as fully of sardonic humor as though we had never seen their likes before.” —Bosley Crowther, New York Times (1963)

The Belcourt Theatre does not provide advisories about subject matter or potential triggering content, as sensitivities vary from person to person.

Beyond the synopses, trailers and review links on our website, other sources of information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense MediaIMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com as well as through general internet searches.


See the Official Website