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.
SPECIAL 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)
New cover by Eric Skillman
