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The Bad Sleep Well
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Bad Sleep Well is a 1960 film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune.The film opens with the wedding of Yoshiko, daughter of Unexploited Land Development Corporation executive Iwabuchi, to Iwabuchi's secretary Nishi (Mifune). The wedding does not go smoothly, as Wada, one of Iwabuchi's subordinates, is arrested on charges of bribery as part of a kickback scheme in which the government awarded fraudulent bids to Land Development. A phalanx of reporters at the wedding fire questions at Wada, and provide exposition explaining that five years ago, a similar public corruption scandal with Land Development was brought to an abrupt end when Furuya, another low-level Land Development executive, flung himself to his death from the window of his office at corporate headquarters.Someone else knows about Furuya: a cake sent to the wedding is in the shape of corporate headquarters with a flower in the window that Furuya jumped from. And the police are getting tips from a mole inside Land Development. It turns out the mole is none other than Nishi, Iwabuchi's dutiful secretary, who is Furuya's secret illegitimate son, and is bent on revenge.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Bad Sleep Well is a loose adaptation of Hamlet—very loose, actually, being less faithful to the source than Kurosawa's other Shakespeare adaptations Throne of Blood and Ran. It was the first film made by Kurosawa's own production company, although it was still distributed by Toho. Viewers more familiar with Toshiro Mifune from his costume dramas with Kurosawa such as Throne of Blood and The Seven Samurai may be surprised to see him as a bespectacled businessman in a three-piece suit. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Nishi and Yoshiko, although their marriage is "cold" rather than "butting heads" | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Yoshiko goes into a catatonic state after finding out that not only did her father have her husband killed, it was her fault for revealing where Nishi was hiding. When Yoshiko and Tatsuo go looking for Nishi, they arrive at the hideout and find Itakura crying in the abandoned corridor over Nishi's death. | |
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Title Drop: Only in Japanese. The film's name in Japan is Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, and Nishi says it almost verbatim when convincing Yoshiko to let him destroy her father. In Japanese that title means "the worse you are, the better you sleep". | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Iwabuchi has a superior at Unexploited Land Development Corporation, one that he occasionally talks to by phone. The film ends with Iwabuchi assuring his superior that everything is taken care of and they're in the clear. The superior is never seen. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Played straight: Wada. He proposed the kickback scheme and was one of the men who encouraged Nishi's father Furuya to commit suicide. Everything we see of him, though, suggests that Wada is otherwise a genuinely decent, even sentimental man who believes in The Power of Love. Subverted: Iwabuchi. Both his son and daughter agree that he's a very loving father. But at the end of the film, given the choice between his children and Public Corporation, Iwabuchi chooses the business without a second thought. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Nishi spends the entire movie building up The Plan to get his ultimate revenge on the corporate grifters who drove his father to suicide, but he ends up falling in love with Yoshiko, leading Iwabuchi to drug his own daughter and arrange for Nishi to be killed. You don't see him die—Yoshiko and Tatsuo return to his hideout, only to be told by his badly beaten best friend that Nishi was drugged and then sent on the road, where he was killed by a train. Land Development Corporation and Iwabuchi get away with everything. Furuya got in on the corruption to make some money, but when he's pressured into killing himself he gives all that money to his estranged son, who uses it to destroy the other conspirators. So his story is also a shaggy dog. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Yoshiko Iwabuchi, who is pure, innocent and gentle. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: The film, set in modern day, has iterations of English words, like "wedding cake" (ウエディングケーキ), "taxi" (タクシー) and "ham-egg" (ハムエッグ) | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Iwabuchi has Nishi killed. The incriminating evidence is seized and destroyed. Wada, a potential witness, is also killed. The investigation ends. The last lines in the movie are Iwabuchi, on the phone with his unseen boss, offering to resign and being told that it's not necessary, and that he can come back after a short vacation. See Shoot the Shaggy Dog below. Incidentally the Japanese Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru is more precisely "the worse you are the better you sleep", so it's definitely an Invoked Trope. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Dead Guy Junior: Nishi, to the deceased Furuya. | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses: The cunning Nishi wears glasses. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nishi is rough, manipulative and vengeful, but deep down he cares about those closest to him, most of all his wife. Itakura (the real Nishi), is a bit meaner, but he and Nishi are fond friends, and Itakura is crushed to lose him. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Hoo boy. See Shoot the Shaggy Dog below. | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Spinning Paper: Newspaper headlines explain what's going on in the investigation of Land Development. | |
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Conveniently an Orphan | |
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Conveniently an Orphan: Nishi's family died in the war. At least, that's what the investigator turned up. | |
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Badass Bureaucrat | |
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Badass Bureaucrat: Nishi's plan to take down the corrupt corporation. | |
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Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
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Nice Mean And Inbetween: The trio involved in the plan; Wada (nice), the mild-mannered Punch-Clock Villain who acts as a conscience for Nishi; Itakura (mean), the most brutally pragmatic; and Nishi (the real Itakura, in-between), who is bent on revenge but treats Iwabuchi's former employees better than he feels he should and has feelings for Yoshiko. | |
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BigDamnKiss | |
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Big Damn Kiss: Nishi and Yoshiko when the truth comes out. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Shirai completely snaps and is sent to an asylum. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Tatsuo uses his wedding toast to flat-out tell Nishi that he'll kill him if he hurts Yoshiko. Tatsuo follows up that threat by shooting at Nishi and later disowning his father when Nishi's murder breaks Yoshiko. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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Played straight: Wada. He proposed the kickback scheme and was one of the men who encouraged Nishi's father Furuya to commit suicide. Everything we see of him, though, suggests that Wada is otherwise a genuinely decent, even sentimental man who believes in The Power of Love. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Miura steps in front of a truck to spare his superiors from incrimination. Furuya was either talked into this, or simply thrown out the window. | |
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Gaslighting | |
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Gaslighting: Nishi and Wada break Shirai with a Humiliation Conga ultimately leading to him seeing the "ghost" of Wada, who's funeral he had just been to that week. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Nishi, who is quiet but full of emotional turmoil, and Yoshiko, his sweet, mild mannered wife. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Yoshiko, a loose counterpart of Ophelia, although she does have a Heroic BSoD after her husband's death. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Not only is Nishi quiet, he has no dialogue for the first third of the film. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Wada brings Yoshiko to the hideout in the hope that the situation could be solved without Iwabuchi being killed. However, this leads her father to grow suspicious of Yoshiko, and to have both Wada and Nishi killed. | |
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Dramatic Drop: Shirai drops his glass when he sees the Furuya-inspired cake. | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
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Satellite Love Interest: Yoshiko, Nishi's wife, who has very little character. | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
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Humiliation Conga: It is not a good week to be Shirai. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Furuya, whose death 5 years before the story sets the plot in motion. | |
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The Bard on Board | |
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The Bard on Board: Hamlet. Well, very loosely, anyway. It's not really an adaptation of Hamlet, but it has certain plot elements from Hamlet, such as an Ophelia-Laertes pair in Yoshiko and her brother Tatsuo, a man seeking revenge for the death of his father (Nishi), and even a ghost, when Nishi sets up the supposedly dead Wada to freak out Shirai. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Tons of this from the reporters in the opening scene, explaining the relationships between the characters. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Nishi's revenge plot is scuppered by his father's well-meaning widow, who innocently reveals his real identity to one of the men Nishi wants to destroy. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Nishi thinks its Iwabuchi but he's merely a cog in the corporation wheel reporting to an unseen and distant senior, who Nishi has no awareness and knowledge of. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Heavily Downplayed. Iwabuchi does not get anything close to justice... but his relationship with his daughter and son is shattered for good, and he really loved them, and the phone call where his seniors tell him to "sleep well" is heavily ironic since we see him stressed and sweating at the end. | |
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Setting Update | |
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Setting Update: Hamlet in modern-day Japan (sort of, see The Bard on Board above). | |
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Sexless Marriage | |
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Sexless Marriage: Yoshiko and Nishi, mainly because Nishi feels guilty about using her. | |
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Was It All a Lie?: Unfortunately, Nishi falls for Yoshiko, and she knows it. This trope hangs in the background of their reunion scene, but they come through for each other in the end. | |
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You Just Told Me | |
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You Just Told Me: How Nishi and Itakura get Moriyama to reveal that he alone knows the whereabouts of a lot of missing cash. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Nishi has good intentions, but is full of revenge. | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: Wada is about to jump into a volcano when Nishi talks him out of it. | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_c4b0faae | comment |
Can't Hold His Liquor: Shirai is floored by a mouthful of whiskey (although he was fooled into thinking it was poisoned). | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Everyone at Land Development—the underlings like Shirai and Wada, the higher-ups like Iwabuchi, and whoever the unseen boss is, all corrupt right up to ordering murders. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_d043ab87 | type |
Armor-Piercing Slap | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_d043ab87 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Slap: Subverted. Nishi tries this on Wada to stop him from committing suicide, but Wada takes this to mean that he should kill himself immediately. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_d558b013 | type |
Un-person | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_d558b013 | comment |
Unperson: In a sense. The real Nishi swapped names with Mifune's character (who's actually named Itakura), but since everyone knows Mifune as Nishi and he died in the car that the real Nishi owned, the real Nishi now has to live out his life as Itakura, and can't testify in court because he doesn't exist as far as the legal system goes. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_dca97045 | type |
Just Following Orders | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_dca97045 | comment |
Just Following Orders: A panicked Shirai tells Nishi that he was just following Iwabuchi's orders when he strong-armed Furuya into committing suicide. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_dd95a27b | type |
I Never Told You My Name | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_dd95a27b | comment |
I Never Told You My Name: Nishi reacts without thinking when Tatsuo addresses him as Itakura, thereby confirming his true identity. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_e4c89b67 | type |
Attending Your Own Funeral | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_e4c89b67 | comment |
Attending Your Own Funeral: Wada is presumed to have flung himself into a volcano. But he didn't, and Nishi takes him to his own funeral so that Wada can see his bosses gloating. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_eb8f64a6 | type |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Nishi reconciles with Yoshiko and places his trust in her. This causes her to be tricked into having Nishi killed. Wada was the one who brought her, out of good intentions, to the hideout, and he is killed, too. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_f662da7a | type |
Revenge Romance | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_f662da7a | comment |
Revenge Romance: Nishi marries Yoshiko as part of his plan, only to fall in love with her. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_fcbdbac2 | type |
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_fcbdbac2 | comment |
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Played at Japanese weddings, it seems. | |
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| The Bad Sleep Well / int_fccd06b6 | type |
Beware the Nice Ones | |
| The Bad Sleep Well / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Nishi. So quiet, so polite, such a good secretary! But he's up to something. Wada is the nicest of the three conspirators against Iwabuchi. But when he finds out that Shirai goaded him into trying to kill himself, Wada tries to assault him. | |
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