finest movies. The most common criticism of the film among professional reviewers refers to the ending. In a 2006 review of the Criterion Collection DVD release, The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps calls it "an assured, muscular Kurosawa film [...] that it's all the more disappointing when a shapeless, anticlimactic, but probably inevitable ending does it in". At the 14th Mainichi Film Awards, Masayuki Mori and Masaru Sato won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Music. American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has listed The Bad Sleep Well as one of his favorite films, citing the first thirty minutes of the film "as perfect as any film I've ever seen" and used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in the 1972 Oscar-winning gangster drama The Godfather. References External links The Bad Sleep Well at the Japanese Movie Database The Bad Sleep Well: The Higher Depths, an essay by Chuck Stephens at the Criterion Collection 1960 films 1960 crime drama films Japanese crime drama films 1960s Japanese-language films Japanese black-and-white films Films based on Hamlet Films directed by Akira Kurosawa Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Films scored by Masaru Sato Films set in Japan Modern adaptations of works by William Shakespeare Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto Films with screenplays by Ryuzo Kikushima Toho films 1960s Japanese films