The Bad Sleep Well

1960 • 2h 30m •

Crime Drama Thriller

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★ 7.7/10

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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.

Top Billed Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Kôichi Nishi

Masayuki Mori

Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

Kamatari Fujiwara

Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada

Takeshi Katō

Itakura

Kyōko Kagawa

Yoshiko Nishi

Tatsuya Mihashi

Tatsuo Iwabuchi

Takashi Shimura

Administrative Officer Moriyama

Kō Nishimura

Contract Officer Shirai

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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 a...