The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #319) [DVD9] [2006]

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.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa
COUNTRY: Japan
YEAR: 1960

Cast & Credits

Cast
Koichi Nishi Toshiro Mifune
Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi Masayuki Mori
Tatsuo Iwabuchi Tatsuya Mihashi
Moriyama Takashi Shimura
Keiko Nishi Kyoko Kagawa
Contract Officer Shirai Kô Nishimura
Itakura Takeshi Kato
Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada Kamatari Fujiwara
Public Prosecutor Nonaka Chishu Ryu

Credits
Director Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa
Producer Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka
Music Masaru Sato
Cinematography Yuzuru Aizawa
Editing Akira Kurosawa
Production design Yoshiro Muraki
Costume design Shoji Kurihara






DVD:
DVD RELEASE: January 10, 2006
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 319
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 2.35:1
Black & White
AUDIO: Japanese Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE):150 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 7.03 GB
SCANS HQ PDF(800 DPI): 4.6 MB



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Disc Features

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* A 33-minute documentary on the making of The Bad Sleep Well, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
* Original theatrical trailer
* New and improved subtitle translation
* New essays by film critic Chuck Stephens and director Michael Almereyda (Deadwood, Hamlet)