The Bastards sleep in peace

the Bastards sleep in peace ( Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru ) is a Japanese film carried out by Akira Kurosawa, left in 1960.

Synopsis

Whereas is held the ceremony of marriage between his/her daughter and her secretary, the vice Iwabuchi director finds himself in the middle of a media storm on bottom of corruption and faked markets.

Data sheet

Title: the Bastards sleep in peace
original Titer: Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
English Title: The Bad Sleep Well
Realization: Akira Kurosawa
Scenario: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni
Production: Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka
Music: Masaru Satô
Photography: Yuzuru Aizawa
Assembly: Akira Kurosawa
Country of origin: Japan
Format: Black and white - TohoScope - Stereo - 35 mm
Lasted: 150 minutes
Coming out date: 1960

Distribution

Toshirō Mifune : Koichi Nishi
Masayuki Mori : Iwabuchi
Kyôko Kagawa : Keiko Nishi
Tatsuya Mihashi : Tatsuo Iwabuchi
Takashi Shimura : Moriyama
KB Nishimura: Shirai
Takeshi Katô : Itakura
Kamatari Fujiwara : Wada
Chishu Ryu : Nonaka
Seiji Miyaguchi : Okakura

Inspirations & Influences

Reinterpretation of the Hamlet of Shakespeare to which it takes again some elements. The scene of opening of the marriage followed by the sequence of the newspaper cuttings inspired to a similar scene seen in the Godfather of Francis Ford Coppola.

Around Film

First film of Kurosawa Production

External bond

the Bastards sleep in peace on Internet Movie Database

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