The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well , 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 Kurosawas own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.

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 presidents secretary a bespectacled Toshiro Mifune. The police interrupt the wedding when corporate assistant officer Wada, who is the wedding receptions 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 companys higherups could be implicated.Following the wedding, the police question Wada Kamatari Fujiwara and accountant Miura about bribery of government officials by the Unexploited Land Development Corporation. As a result of the inquiry, Miura commits suicide by running in front of a truck. When Wada attempts to take his own life by jumping into an active volcano, Nishi stops Wada. Nishi convinces Wada that his superiors are unworthy of the sacrifice he had been willing to make. From that point forward, Nishi uses Wada to further his plans for revenge. ........

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