Product: The Bad Sleep Well (1963)
Rating: 3.0
a film about corruption and revenge. another Kurosawa classic!
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film."The Bad Sleep Well" known is Japan as "Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru" or "The Worse You Are the Better You Sleep" is about a business executive who is seeking revenge on the people in his company who murdered his father. The film is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Shakespearean elements are common in Akira Kurosawa's films. The film also documents the rampant corruption in big corporations which is very common today and some have said that the film was ahead of it's time.The Criterion DVD has a theatrical trailer and a documentary on the film's production as special features.