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The Bad Sleep Well is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Akira Kurosawa released in USA on 22 january 1963 with Toshiro Mifune
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Warui yatsu Hodo yoku nemuru
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 january 1963
Length 2h31
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
OriginJapon
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Rating79%
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is a 1960 film directed by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father's death. It has its roots in Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is also a critique of corporate corruption, with one of its recurring themes being the difficulty combating such corruption, due to a corporate culture in which lower level people feel obligated literally to die, rather than allow their superiors' activities to be discovered.
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The film begins with a group of news reporters watching, and gossiping, at an elaborate wedding reception for Yoshiko Iwabuchi (Kyoko Kagawa), the daughter of Vice President Iwabuchi (Masayuki Mori, the villain character) of the Unexploited Land Development Corporation, a construction company, and Koichi Nishi, the president's secretary (a bespectacled Toshiro Mifune). The police interrupt the wedding when corporate assistant officer Wada, who is the wedding reception's master of ceremony, is arrested on charges of bribery in a kickback scheme. The reporters comment this incident is similar to an earlier scandal involving Iwabuchi, administrative officer Moriyama, and contract officer Shirai. That earlier case was hushed up after the apparent suicide of Assistant Chief Furuya, by jumping off the corporate office building, creating a dead end in the investigation before any of the company's higher-ups could be implicated.Actors
Toshiro Mifune
(Kôichi Nishi)
Masayuki Mori
(Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi)
Kyōko Kagawa
(Yoshiko Nishi)
Takashi Shimura
(Administrative Officer Moriyama)
Tatsuya Mihashi
(Tatsuo Iwabuchi)
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