Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru [translated: The bad sleep well]
The Criterion Collection; Janus Films; Toho Co., Ltd. and Kurosawa Productions present; produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Akira Kurosawa; screenplay by Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima and Shinobu Hashimoto; directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1960
- Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Copyright:
- ©2009
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- Summary:
- 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.
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- Language Notes:
- In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.
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- Alternate Titles:
- Title translation: The bad sleep well
Collective title on box set container: AK100: 25 films by Akira Kurosawa - Subjects:
- Genres:
- System Details:
- DVD; mono.; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1.
- Performers:
- Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura.
- Production Credits:
- Cinematography, Yuzuru Aizawa ; music, Masaru Sato.
- General Notes:
- Credits from English subtitles and book which accompanies set.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Book (96 p. : ill. ; 19 x 31 cm.) included in box set entitled: AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa. - Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- WAR 1960 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 9781604652260 (set)
1604652268 (set) - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 715515052016
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: AK100D18
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection (set): CC1858D - OCLC Numbers:
- 1053102803
476315270 [Invalid]
