The Bad Sleep Well
Illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi, only in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
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13 May 1904, Kumamoto, Japan
23 November 1932, Gifu, Japan
4 September 1905, Tochigi, Japan
13 January 1911, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
3 January 1921
25 January 1923, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
1 January 1907, Tokyo, Japan
15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan
4 August 1918, Kobe, Japan
18 May 1927, Yamanashi, Japan
24 May 1929, Tokyo, Japan
1 April 1914, Osaka, Japan
20 March 1903, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
30 March 1911, Tokyo, Japan
1 April 1920, Tsingtao, China [now Qingdao, Shandong, China]
5 December 1931, Ibaraki, Japan
15 January 1905, Tokyo, Japan
10 September 1928, Tokyo, Japan
29 April 1902, Tokyo, Japan
8 January 1912, Fukuoka, Japan
July 24, 2006
There just seemed to be a missing ingredient to raise this intense psychological drama to the level of a Rashomon.
January 26, 2006
Kurosawa rather loaded the film on the side of social significance, while neglecting to capitalise on the noir aspects that underlie it. Even so, his use of the 'scope screen is masterly.
April 27, 2010
A powerful tale of a son seeking to avenge his father in a world of corporate malfeasance with Hamlet-like dimensions.
March 18, 2006
Despite having been made more than 45 years ago and in a postwar Japanese setting, in the age of Enron, it may be more relevant than ever.
January 20, 2010
The Bad Sleep Well's ground-breaking concept shows Kurosawa's uncompromised ambition.
June 19, 2008
Opening with a bravura wedding sequence and ending with a sycophantic bow to a replaced telephone receiver, the film has its longueurs, but Mifune's buttoned-down avenger is a compelling portrait of righteous obsession foundering on unpredictable reality.
May 10, 2005
This is a powerful and interesting picture that Kurosawa has made -- a bit tedious and mawkish in the last reels, but exciting enough along the way to satisfy audiences that know the subject.
June 19, 2008
t is almost an anti-thriller, but viewers who are willing to steep themselves in the intricacies of Japanese ceremonies and the banal details of evil will find the experience highly rewarding.
December 03, 2016
Uneven thriller about taking down corporate criminals has great opening scene.
January 09, 2006
A freestyle homage to Hamlet that does away with the costumed faithfulness of Kurosawa's other Shakespeare adaptations.
January 01, 2000
A well-done thriller with Kurosawa's usual social overtones.
