The Bad Sleep Well

The execution of a dirty trick as corporate underling Miura (Gen Shimizu) is released from prison, only to be confronted with new charges, designed to elicit further confessions, and the prosecutor (Chishu Ryu) catches flak from the press, in Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, 1960.

Newsmen acting as Greek chorus, the music stops as the bride (Kyoko Kagawa) and groom (Toshiro Mifune) arrive and the cops show up, in the first scene from Akira Kurosawa's corporate crime revenge tale The Bad Sleep Well, 1960.

The wedding party just barely manages to take a threatening toast from young Iwabuchi (Tatsuya Mihashi) in stride when further weirdness ensues, still in the opening scene from Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, 1960.

Middle manager Wada (Kamatari Fujiwara), still silent after weeks in jail, doesn't bend under questioning from a prosecutor (Koji Nanbara) in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, 1960.