| | The Bad Sleep Well (The Criterion Collection) by Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Eijirô Hisaita, Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Shinobu Hashimoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ko Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Masayuki Kato, Duane Capizzi, directed by Akira Kurosawa Dvd, Published 2006 by Criterion Collection Multiple Formats, Black & White, Closed-Captioned, Dolby, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen ISBN-13: 978-0-7800-3008-4, ISBN: 0-7800-3008-7
"The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of corruption at the highest levels of Japanese business and its tragic consequences. Though flawed by a tedious introductory sequence and by an ending that seems out of sync with the story, it is a fascinating movie and the middle part is especially exciting. Japanese legend Toshiro Mifune plays Koichi Nishi, the seemingly stoic bridegroom who is trying to get ahead by marrying the boss's daughter, ..."
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