The Bad Sleep Well Articles

THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review: Part I The saddest thing is that the corruption detailed in The Bad Sleep Well feels so minor league today that it seems almost childish when compared to Enron, Worldcom, and the many others in the years since. In a sense, Iwabuchi isn't even the top criminal in the film. That title would belong to the corporation's little-seen president, Arimura [...]

Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Eijirô Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Chishu Ryu, Ken Mitsuda     By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Akira Kurosawa's 1960 black-and-white Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The [...]