The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well was the first film to be produced under Akira Kirosawa's production company. In this particular film Kirosawa combines elements from Shakespaere's play Hamlet, which is Akira Kirosawa's favorite play.Kurosawa’s film has far more r, realism. On the other hand, Shakespeare's play reflects more upon poetry instead of drama. This movie is mainly about Koichi Nishi, who is a young executive wants revenge for his father's death and decides to search for the killer himself.

Although this was not one of my favorite movies, I noticed how creative Kirosawa was when he did this movie. For instance the sound, and the ay he used the lighting. Everything was done in black and whit photography. He also had great focus camera work. On the action scenes in this movie the camera was very focused when it captured things, especially the movement.

As far as the costumes in the movie, I would have to say that they were fine because they were definitely apart of the Japanese culture.