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Illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi, only in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
14 September 1908, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
24 May 1929, Tokyo, Japan
5 December 1931, Ibaraki, Japan
2 November 1923, Tokyo, Japan
1 January 1907, Tokyo, Japan
4 September 1905, Tochigi, Japan
28 February 1926, Tokyo, Japan
20 March 1903, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
1 April 1920, Tsingtao, China [now Qingdao, Shandong, China]
30 March 1911, Tokyo, Japan
7 June 1927, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
23 November 1932, Gifu, Japan
4 August 1918, Kobe, Japan
3 January 1921
15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan
8 January 1912, Fukuoka, Japan
6 March 1910, Yokohama, Japan
1 April 1914, Osaka, Japan
January 20, 2010
The Bad Sleep Well's ground-breaking concept shows Kurosawa's uncompromised ambition.May 10, 2005
This is a powerful and interesting picture that Kurosawa has made -- a bit tedious and mawkish in the last reels, but exciting enough along the way to satisfy audiences that know the subject.January 01, 2000
A well-done thriller with Kurosawa's usual social overtones.June 19, 2008
Opening with a bravura wedding sequence and ending with a sycophantic bow to a replaced telephone receiver, the film has its longueurs, but Mifune's buttoned-down avenger is a compelling portrait of righteous obsession foundering on unpredictable reality.December 03, 2016
Uneven thriller about taking down corporate criminals has great opening scene.March 18, 2006
Despite having been made more than 45 years ago and in a postwar Japanese setting, in the age of Enron, it may be more relevant than ever.January 09, 2006
A freestyle homage to Hamlet that does away with the costumed faithfulness of Kurosawa's other Shakespeare adaptations.July 24, 2006
There just seemed to be a missing ingredient to raise this intense psychological drama to the level of a Rashomon.June 19, 2008
t is almost an anti-thriller, but viewers who are willing to steep themselves in the intricacies of Japanese ceremonies and the banal details of evil will find the experience highly rewarding.January 26, 2006
Kurosawa rather loaded the film on the side of social significance, while neglecting to capitalise on the noir aspects that underlie it. Even so, his use of the 'scope screen is masterly.April 27, 2010
A powerful tale of a son seeking to avenge his father in a world of corporate malfeasance with Hamlet-like dimensions.