Advantages: A great drama Disadvantages: Some over-acting, a bit too long
...suffer. And as he is the private secretary of the man he holds most responsible, Vice President Iwabuchi, and has just married Iwabuchi's daughter, it would seem that he is not far off achieving his goals. Nishi manages to blackmail some of his colleagues into helping him and it seems that the big bosses are finally about to get their comeuppance, when there is a rather major fly in the ointment - Nishi realises that he has fallen in love with his ... ...any case, can he beat the corrupt Japanese elite that run the company he works for?
The Bad Sleep Well is directed by Akira Kurosawa, also responsible for The Seven Samurai, who is a legendary Japanese director. He sadly died in 1998 at the age of 88, but his influence lives on. You may never have heard of him, but his films have influenced a number of well-known western films, such as A Fist Full of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven (an adaptation ...
sunmeilan 30.03.2009
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