The Bad Sleep Well - coming from Criterion in January

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The Bad Sleep Well - coming from Criterion in JanuaryA 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

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[kegani_morrosso]

Splendid.

[ragingnoodles]

Great news, the cover looks great. Wondering how many Kurosawa films has Criterion released, it's been somewhere around 13 or so?

So far...

[tessai]

In order of Criterion's release:

• Seven Samurai
  
• High and Low
  
• Yojimbo
  
• Sanjuro
  
• The Hidden Fortress
  
• Rashomon
  
• Red Beard
  
• Throne of Blood
  
• Ikiru
  
• The Lower Depths
  
• Stray Dog
  
• Kagemusha
  
• Ran (November 2005)
  
• The Bad Sleep Well (January 2006)

Re: So far...

[ragingnoodles]

Ok thanks.

[fearnotofman]

Thank God. I bought a version from amazon.com that was so horribly translated I couldn't finish watching it, because I couldn't understand what the hell was going on. The names were all changed to Chinese names, too.