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Episode 374: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)
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- Trylove
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- Mar 17, 2026
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- 6806
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Summary
How much Ham could a Hamlet let if a Hamlet could let Ham? Anyway, if you know Hamlet well, you may not enjoy THE BAD SLEEP WELL as much as someone who doesn’t. Toshiro Mifune (the GOAT) is an aggrieved secretary taking on a corrupt corporation, setting in motion a complicated plot to force confessions from sleazy profiteers who pressured a colleague into committing suicide amid an embezzlement scandal. Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespearean noir borrows the broad strokes of the Bard, but in updating the setting for postwar Japan, it makes kind of inverse conclusions about its main character (and the way it changes Hamlet’s classic tragic ending). Give to these causes in need during ICE’s occupation of Minnesota: Support Minnesotans defending their communities from ICE: https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ @sanctuarysupplydepot: Mutual aid group in Mpls getting basic necessities to our houseless neighbors https://linktr.ee/sanctuarysupplydepot @mplsmutualaid: Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors: https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid ISAIAH, an interfaith group fighting for racial and economic justice in MN: https://secure.everyaction.com/G8TCnxFlE0qd9zlUEYjjeg2 Show love to North Minneapolis families in crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-to-north-minneapolis-families-in-crisis References: “The Tragedies Play Well: Akira Kurosawa’s Three-Time Love Affair with Shakespeare” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Human Enough,” Harry Mackin’s piece for Perisphere, the Trylon blog, about BLADE RUNNER (1982), which played as part of the Bad Company series at the Trylon “The role of Hamlet in Kurosawa’s ‘The Bad Sleep Well’” by A.A. Birdsall “Thousand Words: Evil Behind the Mask of Respectability (The Bad Sleep Well, 1960)” by Andrea Grunert for The Big Picture M…