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	How do you break a "bad" sleep habit?? [Archive] - MotheringDotCommune Forums
		Between the move and all the adjustments that entails, playing the video at night is probably not such a bad thing as long as he has a relatively consistent bedtime and he's getting enough sleep.
		I talked to my mom last night and she sleeps with the tv on too whn she is alone.
		They make a video that is especially for going to sleep, I cant remember the name but it has animals and lullabies and after like 10 minutes it starts to dim and soften and continues to do so until it shuts off.
	www.mothering.com /discussions/archive/index.php/t-229827.html (831 words)

	Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He uses a lot of intriguing mise-en-scene compositions for his interiors that serve to highlight his characters' inner thoughts but very little movement of the camera in order to manipulate his audience; the dark nature of the story is enough to suck you in.
		One of the fascinating observations in "The Bad Sleep Well" is that nearly all of the characters are morally bankrupt and filled with secrets - even Nishi, the protagonist.
		However, despite these flaws, overall "The Bad Sleep Well" is a masterful and dark excursion into the seedy side of corporate crime, using Shakespeare Hamlet brilliantly but not completely as it's core.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0054460 (915 words)

	DVD: The Bad Sleep Well (Criterion)
		Criterion has really outdone themselves with the video presentation on this film, presenting a transfer that is simply stunning given that the movie is 46 years old today.
		The Bad Sleep Well is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1, and is Anamorphic for widescreen TVs.
		The Bad Sleep Well contains one audio track, which is a 1.0 mono presentation.
	www.tohokingdom.com /dvd/bad_sleep_well_cri.htm (487 words)

	DVDFILE.com
		The Bad Sleep Well is the kind of less-recognizable work that completely cements Kurosawa’s placement as a veritable god of cinema.
		Yes, there’s a bit of haziness and overall softness to the whole thing (as well as a few dropped frames here and there), but that is all countered by the relative cleanliness of the print and the transfer’s striking monochromatic contrast.
		The Bad Sleep Well has a great transfer, an adequate sound mix, and a fascinating documentary; it’s truly the first must-see DVD of 2006.
	www.dvdfile.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5242&Itemid=3 (619 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bad Sleep Well - Criterion Collection: DVD: Toshirô Mifune,Masayuki Mori,Kyôko Kagawa,Tatsuya ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One of these, The Bad Sleep Well (1960), driven by his own inspiration to criticize the Japanese post-war corruption and hierarchical abuse shows his strong influence of Hamlet.
		The Bad Sleep Well presents a film noir with hints of Hitchcock and clear influences of Shakespeare in it, but it also leaves the audience with an original touch of Kurosawa that lets the viewer submerged into a very good film about the corrupt and dark world of corporate sharks.
		The Bad Sleep Well however, does not take the same ambiance as those pictures, rather it shows a flash of Kurosawa's elderly genius from such pictures as Kagemusha and Ran(not to undermine his early genius, its just that the film feels much like one of his later pictures).
	www.amazon.com /Bad-Sleep-Well-Criterion-Collection/dp/B000BR6QCI (3015 words)

	DVD review of Bad Sleep Well, The (Criterion) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Just when “The Bad Sleep Well” seems to be traveling the same road paved by all the revenge fantasies before it, Kurosawa and his writers veer off on a major detour.
		Just when “The Bad Sleep Well” seems to be traveling the same road paved by all the revenge fantasies before it, Kurosawa and his writers (five writers, including Kurosawa, worked on different parts of the screenplay) veer off on a major detour.
		Perhaps the darkest and most pessimistic of Kurosawa’s earlier films, “The Bad Sleep Well” is the rare revenge flick that holds its hero responsible for his actions and places him within the context of the society he tries so hard to deny he is part of.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/badsleepwellthecriterion/17988/3384 (1151 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Bad Sleep Well: Criterion Collection
		The Bad Sleep Well has a weak three-act structure that foreshadows the unique two-act structure of High and Low.
		Perhaps the reason that Kurosawa is all thumbs during this second act is that he consciously approached The Bad Sleep Well as a shikai-mono, or social critique film.
		Were The Bad Sleep Well made by a director less brilliant than Kurosawa, its dud second act would be a dagger in the viewer's heart, a disappointing finale to what began as a promising tale of intrigue and corruption.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/badsleepwell.php (1604 words)

	The Bad Sleep Well - DVD Movie Central
		When watching The Bad Sleep Well, I was reminded of an old Archie Bunker line about how Richard Nixon wouldn't have had so much trouble had he hired Japanese men instead of Germans.
		Kurosawa and Mifune collaborated many times over the course of their careers, and if The Bad Sleep Well is sometimes thought of as the least of their partnerships, that's really only a testament to how incredibly great their other films were.
		The Bad Sleep Well is a must-see for fans of Akira Kurosawa or Toshiro Mifune, and even more so for the many fans of both artists.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/bad_sleep_well.htm (884 words)

	DVD Breakdown \| The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
		Among Western audiences, Akira Kurosawa is well known as the most accessible of classic Japanese directors, his work having been so clearly inspired by Western influences, the two main ones being director John Ford and playwright William Shakespeare.
		Kurosawa's great gift (besides his genius for editing and composition) may have been his ability to translate these archetypal myths and characters to Japanese culture without losing either audience (though he was often accused of being overly 'westernized' within Japan).
		The inspiration for his noir-tinged corporate thriller The Bad Sleep Well is clearly derived from Hamlet, although Kurosawa's version of the Danish prince (as performed by Toshiro Mifune) isn't characterized so much by his soliloquys and infinte procrastinating, but rather by his dedication to vengeance, and the careful plotting of his nemeses' downfall.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/badsleepwell.html (394 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Bad Sleep Well
		The Bad Sleep Well is a modern tale with Japanese executives in western dress.
		A bicycle accident injured one of Keiko's legs, partially crippling her; Nishi's plan was to just walk away from the marriage when his mission is completed, but his deception reveals limits to his desire for revenge.
		Criterion's DVD of The Bad Sleep Well is a rich and sharp enhanced transfer of this very widescreen Tohoscope film.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1859bad.html (1562 words)

	DVD Movie Store Featuring The Bad Sleep Well - Criterion Collection Movie on Dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of corruption at the highest levels of Japanese business and its tragic consequences.
		Despite many good elements, The Bad Sleep Well is one Kurosawa movie that didn't involve me much, either emotionally or in the story telling.
		"The Bad Sleep Well" known is Japan as "Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru" or "The Worse You Are the Better You Sleep" is about a business executive who is seeking revenge on the people in his company who murdered his father.
	www.evaluebuy.com /shops/asinsearch_B000BR6QCI.html (594 words)

	The Bad Sleep Well Movie Review (1960) from Channel 4 Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		However, approaching a social issue from an individual's perspective, identifying the universal human themes in the contemporary situation is very Kurosawa.
		The Bad Sleep Well may suffer a little from a lack of pace, and it's a very long film, but it's a good yarn, anchored by Mifune's central performance, his conflicted response to his own grief as gripping as the scandal he precipitates.
		The tension is beautifully sustained by a sharp aesthetic, exemplified by a series of stark night-time thriller sequences set in dark, deserted back-alleys, intermittently and chillingly floodlit with car headlamps.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=110034&page=2 (386 words)

	Firecracker \| The Bad Sleep Well & Drunken Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Themes of good and evil, devilish and angelic are explored and blurred, until they are finally defined by Kurosawa at his best in its climax.
		The second film on release this month is The Bad Sleep Well, made almost 12 years later with an evidently larger budget.
		The film does tend to run on too long, but Kurosawa takes his time in layering social critiques of big business well before it came to the attention of the public and even linking it to politics – a theme commonly explored by mainstream documentaries today.
	www.firecracker-media.com /issue09/d_review0903.shtml (655 words)

	The Bad Sleep Well Article By Ian White
		Truth be told, her inherent dislike of music pushed me into becoming a hermit Ð an existence where I locked the door, worked, studied, reviewed, and listened alone in boring solitude.
		Audio was verboten in the bedroom and it made me a "bad" person to fall asleep to music.
		I can't listen to gear anymore for how well it reproduces the soundstage, or for that last smidgen of air in the treble," I replied.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/viewpoint/0604/badsleep.htm (1946 words)

	Images - Kurosawa: Stray Dog, The Lower Depths, and The Bad Sleep Well
		The huge wedding cake arrives to gasps of horror: it's a replica of an office building, modeled on that of the corporation whose head is the father of the bride, but it has a single red flower sticking out of the seventh-floor window, a gruesome reference to an employee who jumped from there.
		The Bad Sleep Well was shot in glorious Tohoscope, and appears in a new letterboxed director's cut here for the first time.
		The Bad Sleep Well is a director's cut, with 16 minutes of restored footage.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue06/reviews/kurosawa.htm (1427 words)

	www.TheGline.com: DVD of the Week: (01-13-06): The Bad Sleep Well
		He uses that charisma to elevate individual scenes in Bad out of the murk of the plot, as when he reduces one of his nemeses to a sniveling wreck in a darkened office room.
		I also liked the grimy atmosphere of the last stretch of the movie, where the heroes (and one hostage) try to out-wait their adversaries in the wrecked, leaking remains of a wartime factory—one of the very lands that Public Co. was probably intent on developing.
		The philosophy of Bad falls nicely in line with other Kurosawa films: the one vanguard against the evils that almost inevitably comes with conformist society is the enlightened individual.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2006/01-13-2006.htm (1227 words)

	Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some of his plots are adaptations of William Shakespeare's works: Ran is based on King Lear and Throne of Blood is based on Macbeth, while The Bad Sleep Well parallels Hamlet, but is not affirmed to be based on it.
		Despite criticism by some Japanese critics that Kurosawa was "too Western", he was deeply influenced by Japanese culture as well, including the Kabuki and Noh theaters and the jidaigeki (period drama) genre of Japanese cinema.
		Rashomon not only helped open Japanese cinema to the world but virtually entered the English language as a term for fractured, inconsistent narratives as well as influencing other works, including episodes of television series and many motion pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akira_Kurosawa (1738 words)

	Akira Kurosawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born into a samurai family whose family tree reaches back into the 11th century, his upbringing was both traditional and modern.
		His father trained him in traditional sports such as Judo and Kendo (swordfighting) as well as in calligraphy and in Kabuki and No theater, yet also frequently took the family to the cinema (at time long before movies had become popular).
		His older brother Heigo introduced him to the great works of European literature, and he later based many of his films on the works of European writers such as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or Tolstoy.
	www.cinecosm.com /people/p0009.htm (492 words)

	DVD Times - The Bad Sleep Well
		The Bad Sleep Well tears into the Japanese class system with a savage zeal (those Elisha Cook Jr.-types, it appears, have no choice but to be subservient), yet the denunciation of the father figure allows it a more universal nature.
		The Bad Sleep Well follows the pattern of the recent BFI Kurosawa releases inasmuch as its extras amount to only a booklet and on-screen biographies for the director and his lead.
		Once again we have a fine clarity (Sato’s score is particularly well served) with the only noticeable flaws being the occasional pop during the reel changes.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58082 (1028 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Bad Sleep Well: The Criterion Collection
		Koichi is not what or who he seems, since his father was asked to kill himself to protect the corporation, and his marriage is all a part of a five-year plan to destroy the company from within.
		The Bad Sleep Well is, in a jazz sense, a riff on the rotten state of Denmark, which gives the text a fresh glean — and only a genius can add to something acknowledged as a classic the world over and avoid its shopworn characteristics.
		The Bad Sleep Well is labeled a "minor" Kurosawa only because it doesn't have the heft, or place, of the pictures for which he will always be celebrated.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/badsleepwell_cc.q.shtml (471 words)

	The Bad Sleep Well - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is a 1960 film by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
		The first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company, it has been widely (and, perhaps, unfairly) dismissed as a minor piece within the acclaimed director's filmography.
		The Bad Sleep Well at the Internet Movie Database
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bad_Sleep_Well (168 words)

	Nana \| Rambling Thoughts
		because despite of various possible solutions (that many times are there crystal clear in front of us even before we have the respective problem :D), i still find it difficult to sleep.
		she couldn't sleep at all without the pill.
		well, find the ones with no snake then..
	www.nananias.com /archives/one_two_three_four_naked.php (867 words)

	STUFF YOU GOTTA WATCH - The Bad Sleep Well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Reviewed by JB Akira Kurosawa's indictment of corporate and government corruption, wrapped up in a noirish thriller, THE BAD SLEEP WELL is one of the director's best-looking films with much to recommend it, yet too problematic to stand up with his best work.
		THE BAD SLEEP WELL also shows Kurosawa's mastery of the widescreen Tohoscope format and the ease with which he incorporates the cinematic conventions of American fim noir into his own unique style.
		For at least an hour, the film is a relentless thriller as Mifune systematically drives one corporate underling completely mad, culminating in a scene in which an increasingly scary Mifune gives the underling two choices - jump out a seventh-floor window or drink poisoned whiskey.
	otherstuff.laurelandhardycentral.com /badsleep.html (346 words)

	The Bad Sleep Well \| The A.V. Club
		The title of Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well suggests the film's debt to American noir, but an alternate version of the title reveals even more in eight simple words: The Worse You Are, The Better You Sleep.
		Released in 1960 and made between the light samurai adventure The Hidden Fortress and the landmark samurai dark comedy Yojimbo, The Bad Sleep Well depicts a Japan that's only grown more brutal since it put away its swords.
		The Bad Sleep Well continues to be an assured, muscular Kurosawa film for so long that it's all the more disappointing when a shapeless, anticlimactic, but probably inevitable ending does it in.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/44749 (372 words)

	village voice > screens > The Bad Sleep Well; Black Girl/Borom Sarret by Joshua Land
		A young man seeks to expose his father's killer in Akira Kurosawa's Hamlet-like story of corporate corruption in postwar Japan.
		Supplements include a making-of documentary as well as essays by filmmaker Michael Almereyda and occasional Voice contributor Chuck Stephens.
		As with Bresson and the Dardennes, these films will make nearly everything else you watch for the next week feel bloated and nonessential by contrast.
	www.villagevoice.com /screens/0603,land,71737,28.html (185 words)

	Toshiro Mifune Reviews: The Bad Sleep Well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nishi in The Bad Sleep Well has been called his Hamlet.
		A young man whose father had died several years earlier in a nasty bit of corporate intrigue--was it suicide or murder?--seeks vengeance upon those he believes responsible.
		The Bad Sleep Well gets a bit tangled in its own plot lines, but contains some remarkably inventive sequences that redeem the narrative's gyrations.
	www.sprout.org /toshiro/reviews/bad_sleep_well.html (330 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Bad Sleep Well (Criterion Collection): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Whoever did the subtitle translation did not speak English well enough to graduate from a level one ESL class.
		Indeed much of Kurosawa's best work carries a highly distinctive and supremely confident muscular swagger which can be found here in the stirring (and rather addictive) musical motif, the altogether patient and very deliberate pacing, and the seemingly effortless transitions he makes between the tragic and the comic.
		Also, Nishi's character is much less ambiguous than Hamlet's; while he may at certain junctures fail to take his plan for revenge the entire way, he doesn't come close to sharing the overall indecision and confusion of Hamlet.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BR6QCI (1494 words)

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