The Bad Sleep Well (1960) on Netflix
NR19602h 31mCrimeDramaThriller
Kôichi Nishi marries Yoshiko, the daughter of vice president Iwabuchi, to avenge his father's death. Police interrupt the reception and arrest the master of ceremonies on bribery charges.
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Plot summary
Reporters gather at the wedding of Kôichi Nishi and Yoshiko, the daughter of Iwabuchi, vice president of the Public Development Corporation, and notice the cake, a replica of the company's headquarters. Nishi, once Iwabuchi's secretary, married into the family to avenge his own father. Police interrupt the reception to arrest Wada, the master of ceremonies, over a kickback scheme linking a construction firm to the publicly funded corporation. Talk turns to a scandal at the firm that was hushed up years earlier, after an employee fell from a seventh-floor office window and the inquiry stopped short of the executives.
Cast
- Someshô Matsumotoas Construction Company President Hatano
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
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- While filming a car scene for The Bad Sleep Well, Kyōko Kagawa suffered facial injuries and considered quitting acting; at the hospital, Toshiro Mifune stood in front of her room door to stop the press from interviewing her.
- Toho Studios grew frustrated with Akira Kurosawa for going overbudget on The Hidden Fortress, so in 1959 he formed his own company, Kurosawa Productions; The Bad Sleep Well was its first film, made on a subject of social significance rather than for commercial success.
- Francis Ford Coppola named The Bad Sleep Well one of his favorite films, calling its first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen", and used them as inspiration for the wedding sequence in his 1972 film The Godfather.
- To play a disabled wife in The Bad Sleep Well, Kyōko Kagawa wore uneven shoes and a knee brace.
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