The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Toshirô Mifune: Kôichi Nishi

Photos 

3 more photos

Quotes 

• Koichi Nishi : It's not easy hating evil. You have to stoke your own fury until you become evil yourself.

• Koichi Nishi : They tamed my father and you with scraps from their table and offered you up as scapegoats, yet you can't hate them. This is the only message scum like them understand. Even now they sleep well, grins on their faces.

• [Nishi drives Wada to the funeral service- his own. Nishi wipes the rain from the windscreen so Wada can look. Wada peers over the dashboard. It is really a magnificent funeral, with wreaths, candles, a picture of him mounted on the top of a wonderful display, and co-workers bowing solemnly. Wada is aghast to find his wife and daughter at the funeral] 

  Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada : Why... why are you doing this to me? This is sheer torment! I'd rather be dead!

  [He begins to sob] 

  Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada : Please, let me die. I have to die! Wasting this fine funeral-!

  Koichi Nishi : Calm down, now. There's something I want you to hear. You've been to Noir, right? The bar run by Moriyama's mistress?

  [He takes out a large tape recorder, disguised as a valise] 

  Koichi Nishi : This is Moriyama and Shirai talking there last night.

  Contract Officer Shirai : [over the tape recorder]  What, you came to this kind of place? And so soon after getting married?

  Koichi Nishi : [over tape recorder]  You've caught me red handed. I'm ready for a dance.

  Administrative Officer Moriyama : [over tape recorder]  Now, now. No need to rush off.

  [Moriyama and Shirai laugh] 

  Koichi Nishi : [to Wada]  That's when I placed a briefcase with this tape recorder inside it under their table.

  [He shuts the tape off] 

  Koichi Nishi : I'll play their conversation for you after they arrive at the funeral.

  [He starts whistling a tune] 

• Administrative Officer Moriyama : [imprisoned inside a locked room]  Cut the crap! You've starved me for two whole days!

  Koichi Nishi : Would you like to eat?

  Administrative Officer Moriyama : Of course!

  Koichi Nishi : We haven't got much to offer. You like ham and eggs on toast?

  Administrative Officer Moriyama : Anything!

  Koichi Nishi : [opening up the locked door and showing him the pan of food]  Ham and eggs on toast will run you 15 million.

  Administrative Officer Moriyama : 15 million?

  Koichi Nishi : Surely you're not shocked! 'Always get a kickback!' That's your policy, isn't it?

• Koichi Nishi : You've become a real lapdog, haven't you? You'd kill yourself just because Moriyama and Shirai told you to. Those masters you so loyally serve are celebrating even now. To Iwabuchi, Moriyama and Shirai, you're just a nuisance, a walking liability they want to be rid of. But listen to me: Cattle and swine die kinder deaths!

• Koichi Nishi : Time to go.

  Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada : Where?

  Koichi Nishi : Your funeral. I just dropped off an offering on behalf of Iwabuchi and the firm. The've put on quite a show. A five tier altar, three priests, and two huge wreaths courtesy of Public Corp.

  Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada : A beautiful funeral. I knew it.

• Koichi Nishi : Our work is done for tonight. Isn't it fun playing a ghost?

• Koichi Nishi : It wasn't easy leaping into a snake pit like this.

• Koichi Nishi : I guess I don't hate them enough.