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The Bad Sleep Well

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1963JpnColor5.0 / 549.3k views

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.

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