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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Takashi Shimura</title>
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		<title>THE BAD SLEEP WELL d: Akira Kurosawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bad Sleep Well]]></category>
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Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Direction: Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Chishu Ryu, Ken Mitsuda
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s 1960 black-and-white Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well, is often compared to William Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet, but that&#8217;s an inapt comparison. While Shakespeare&#8217;s play has a higher sense of poetry, Kurosawa&#8217;s film &#8212; though  a high-class melodrama &#8212; has far more relevance, realism, and complexity. 
Written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni, The Bad Sleep Well&#8217;s Shakespearean pedigree and the fact that [...]]]></description>
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