The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Tatsuya Mihashi: Tatsuo Iwabuchi

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• Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Nishi, I'm counting on you to look after my sister. She's had a tough life. I may be a mess, but I'd do anything to protect her. Listen, Nishi, if you make my sister unhappy, I swear I'll kill you!

• Tatsuo Iwabuchi : [to Nishi about his father who is cooking barbeque wearing an apron]  He hardly looks the part of a bad guy.

• Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Traditionally, in making a wedding toast, we stick to the same old sugarcoated clichés. Frankly, my father isn't crazy about aspects of Nishi's past outlined in a detective agency's report. But then it's not my father who's getting married.

• Yoshiko Nishi : Drinking so early?

  Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Did you see the papers? Makes me feel like crap.

  Yoshiko Nishi : A drunk needs no excuse to drink.

• Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Yoshiko, he's using you. You're just a pawn for his vengeance.

• [Tatsuo and Yoshiko find Itakura sobbing in Nishi's hideout. Itakura sees them and rushes to them] 

  Itakura : It was you, wasn't it? You told them where Nishi was.

  [Yoshiko nods] 

  Itakura : Congratulations. Thanks to you, Nishi's been murdered.

  Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Don't blame her. Our father tricked her into telling.

  Itakura : [grimacing]  Tricked her, did he? Now all of Japan can be tricked the same way. You must have seen it on your way here. That car flattened into scrap by a freight train. NISHI WAS IN THAT CAR!

  [Tatsuo and Yoshiko cringe] 

  Itakura : You don't believe me? I'll show you, then.

  [He tries to grab Yoshiko] 

  Itakura : I'll show you what they did to him! Look!

  [He shows a bunch of tools on the ground] 

  Itakura : The signs of his last stand against them! There's more.

  [He shoves them into a room] 

  Itakura : Take a close look. The bottle of alcohol and the broken syringe. I think... No, I'm positive. Nishi... They pinned Nishi down. Then...

  [He demonstrates by shoving the syringe into an old coat in a corner of the room] 

  Itakura : They shot him full of grain alcohol. Then they dumped him into the car I left as a precaution, and aimed him, unconscious, toward the tracks. Drunk driving. His sense of justice and all his hard work will be consigned to oblivion and his name dragged in the mud!

  [Yoshiko faints] 

  Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Yoshiko! Yoshiko!

  [Tatsuo hugs her tightly] 

  Itakura : You're Tatsuo, right?

  [He sits in the rubble] 

  Itakura : I'm Itakura. Actually, my real name's Nishi. But now I can't ever go back to being myself. Hey, listen. The car Nishi died in was mine. It was registered to Nishi. So Nishi died in Nishi's car. I'm Itakura now. I can't testify to anything.

  [He starts crying again] 

  Itakura : How can this be? Nishi was murdered last night. That much is certain. Yet, even though it's a fact... There's nothing I can do about it!

  [He sobs into the coat] 

  Itakura : They killed Wada, too.

  Tatsuo Iwabuchi : Wada?

  Itakura : Wada, the assistant. He was here last night, but now he's gone. He was already thought to be dead. Easy enough to get rid of him. And Moriyama, who spilled his guts last night, they took him away, too. By now they've probably destroyed all material evidence. I know everything. It's horrifying that it's all so simple and yet so foul!

  [He cries once more] 

  Itakura : But I don't have a single shred of evidence! There's nothing I can say! Nothing I can do! Goddamn it! How can this be? HOW CAN THIS BE?