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Neither does the movie as a whole stand up to its neighbors and peers in the Kurasowa oeuvre, sandwiched between The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo, and so it is considered one of his lesser works. The total oblivion of The Bad Sleep Well suffers in comparison with the troubled damnation of High and Low and the psychological turmoil of Record of a Living Being. No one is spared from disaster, and the oft-lamented anonymity retained by the true villains indeed skews the moral impact of the final sequences. By the end, there is so little hope for the fate of the protagonists that by relaxing even an inch, we are ourselves enmeshed in the crime of complacency charged by the title. The film’s fixation on evil and the motives that animate it makes for a restrictive viewing experience, to say the least. His sinister ambitions are rivaled in intensity only by the drama of the events they inspire as one-by-one the upper echelon of company executives are embroiled in a mysterious plot to indict them for their under-the-table dealings.
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The hero is a young, auspicious secretary (Toshiro Mifune) whose motives in marrying the company president’s daughter are not what they seem. After the fact, when corporate scandal rocked Japan, he would lament that he had been too timid in his exposé and released the film too early.Īs such, it is not mere speculation to say that the movie tackles corruption in high places with a personal zeal. He was always notorious for being scrupulous, and as he embarked upon a more independent career he felt a responsibility to be socially relevant. Shooting The Hidden Fortress was so expensive and elaborate that he split from Toho his reputation for expansive projects soon spread and even affected his choice of locales for The Bad Sleep Well. The denunciatory, somewhat torturous tone of The Bad Sleep Well may be explained in part by its unique place in Kurasowa’s career as the first feature he made through his own production company.