The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kyōko Kagawa, Masayuki Mori, Takeshi Katō, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune
Country: Japan
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