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CrimeDramaThriller

The Bad Sleep Well

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In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Release Date : 1960-09-19

Language :Japanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : TOHOKurosawa Production

Production Country : Japan

Alternative Titles : The Rose in the Mud

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Character Name : Kôichi Nishi

Original Name : 三船敏郎

Gender : Male

Masayuki Mori

Character Name : Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

Original Name : 森雅之

Gender : Male

Kamatari Fujiwara

Character Name : Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada

Original Name : 藤原釜足

Gender : Male

Takeshi Katō

Character Name : Itakura

Original Name : 加藤武

Gender : Male

Kyōko Kagawa

Character Name : Yoshiko Nishi

Original Name : 香川京子

Gender : Female

Tatsuya Mihashi

Character Name : Tatsuo Iwabuchi

Original Name : 三橋達也

Gender : Male

Takashi Shimura

Character Name : Administrative Officer Moriyama

Original Name : 志村喬

Gender : Male

Kō Nishimura

Character Name : Contract Officer Shirai

Original Name : 西村晃

Gender : Male

Kyū Sazanka

Character Name : Construction Company Executive Director Kaneko

Original Name : 山茶花究

Gender : Male

Someshō Matsumoto

Character Name : Construction Company President Hatano

Original Name : 松本染升

Gender : Male

Gen Shimizu

Character Name : Managing Director Miura

Original Name : 清水元

Gender : Male

Atsuko Ichinomiya

Character Name : Mrs. Ariyama

Original Name : 一の宮あつ子

Gender : Female

Natsuko Kahara

Character Name : Mrs. Furuya

Original Name : 賀原夏子

Gender : Female

Nobuko Tashiro

Character Name : Mrs. Moriyama

Original Name : Nobuko Tashiro

Gender : Male

Ken Mitsuda

Character Name : Public Corporation President Arimura

Original Name : 三津田健

Gender : Male

Kôji Nanbara

Character Name : Public Prosecutor Horiuchi

Original Name : 南原宏治

Gender : Male

Chishū Ryū

Character Name : Public Prosecutor Nonaka

Original Name : 笠智衆

Gender : Male

Seiji Miyaguchi

Character Name : Public Prosecutor Okakura

Original Name : 宮口精二

Gender : Male

Kin Sugai

Character Name : Tomoko Wada

Original Name : 菅井きん

Gender : Female

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Character Name : ADA Secretary

Original Name : 土屋嘉男

Gender : Male

Shirō Tsuchiya

Character Name : Construction Company Employee #1

Original Name : 土屋詩朗

Gender : Male

Sōji Ubukata

Character Name : Construction Company Employee #2

Original Name : 生方壮児

Gender : Male

Susumu Fujita

Character Name : Detective

Original Name : 藤田進

Gender : Male

Kunie Tanaka

Character Name : Hitman

Original Name : 田中邦衛

Gender : Male

Kyōko Ozawa

Character Name : Iwabuchi Maid #1

Original Name : Kyōko Ozawa

Gender : Male

Hiromi Mineoka

Character Name : Iwabuchi Maid #2

Original Name : Hiromi Mineoka

Gender : Male

Nobuo Nakamura

Character Name : Legal Adviser

Original Name : 中村伸郎

Gender : Male

Ryôji Shimizu

Character Name : Management Section Worker

Original Name : Ryôji Shimizu

Gender : Male

Gorô Sakurai

Character Name : Prosecutor

Original Name : Gorô Sakurai

Gender : Male

Kōji Mitsui

Character Name : Reporter A

Original Name : 三井弘次

Gender : Male

Yoshifumi Tajima

Character Name : Reporter B

Original Name : 田島義文

Gender : Male

Hisashi Yokomori

Character Name : Reporter C

Original Name : 横森久

Gender : Male

Jun Kondô

Character Name : Reporter D

Original Name : Jun Kondô

Gender : Male

Akemi Ueno

Character Name : Safety Deposit Box Rental Receptionist

Original Name : Akemi Ueno

Gender : Male

Ikio Sawamura

Character Name : Taxi Driver

Original Name : 沢村いき雄

Gender : Male

Toshiko Higuchi

Character Name : Wada's Daughter

Original Name : 樋口年子

Gender : Female

Yutaka Sada

Character Name : Wedding Receptionist

Original Name : 佐田豊

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-11-17

We start with the sight of a group of journalists at a wedding. The daughter of an industrialist is marrying the son of another. Nothing new here until, that is, an extra wedding cake is wheeled into the reception shaped just like an office block. Sticking out of a seventh floor window is a rose. We are quickly told that symbolises the window from which the groom's father committed suicide. Shortly afterwards, two senior executives are arrested after a ¥12 billion deal is suspected of being a bit fishy. Neither executive will talk to the prosecutors so one is released and the other released and re-arrested. The latter man takes the hint and falls foul of a passing lorry! Could the events of years ago be coming back to haunt those responsible? It certainly has shades of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to it, but this isn't one of my favourite Kurosawa films. Despite being almost 2¼ hours long I felt the characterisations rather under-developed. The always reliable Toshirô Mifune is the groom ("Nishi") and for a while there is a strong dynamic between him and the star of the film, for me anyway, Kô Nishimura ("Shirai). This latter man is complicit in the double dealings and is quite literally scared into helping "Nishi" expose the culprits and activities that caused his misery. The rest of the acting here is not up to the usual standard, though. There is a great deal of dialogue and in this case that slows the pace down and creates a sense of almost the ennui around the middle third of the film - just as the plot ought to be thickening. The denouement is also rather underwhelming - though, I suppose entirely plausible and totally consistent with the ethos of the title (and the source play), but I still left this screening just a bit disappointed.