Hamlet goes corporate Japan in this Akira Kurosawa masterwork. Another AK, Aki Kaurismaki, would later make Hamlet Goes Business in which the great Dane inherits a rubber duck factory - same story / different story.

THE BAD SLEEP WELL

Akira Kurosawa

1960

Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura

Written by Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima, Eijirō Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto; inspired by Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Title: THE BAD SLEEP WELL

Year: 1960

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura

Writing: Written by Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima, Eijirō Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto; inspired by Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Genre tags: CRIME, THRILLER