Hamlet involves two main tragedies involving fathers and sons, all of which end with unsatisfyingly, like the bad sleep well, which also involves two father son pairs
Nishi seeks revenge for a man he barely even knew, perhaps the disconnect between he and his father was a source of his frustration. The public corporation took his father from him before he ever knew him.
Nishi’s father abandoned him and his mother while Nishi was very young, implying that he was somewhat selfish. He was also a small part of the large public corporation
Nishis father still supported his family even though he abandoned them, making you wonder how he felt about his family and his decisions about them.
Nishis father seems insignificant like Wada, or did he have some other reason to be forced to suicide?
Regardless, he seems like a somewhat unlikable
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However, hamlet’s frustration is manifested against the society he lives in.
Nishi mourns his father not because of the man he was, but because of the relationship he feels he lost.
Nishi recounts his father coming to him before his suicide, and believes this means his father truly loves him.
Nishi explains that his father left him to marry a woman that the company had picked out for him.
Instead of seeing his father for the man that he is, Nishi sees a man that was corrupted and compelled by the forces of corporatism to betray his family.
He is not avenging his father, he is avenging the theft of his idyllic childhood.
Nishi could have possibly accepted that his father left to make a better life for himself, and then share it with his family, but when his father commits suicide, we see that it was an empty sacrifice in the service of an evil entity.
Kurosawa draws a distinction between someone who acts badly out of circumstance, those who struggle to resist the lure of evil, and those who act out of malevolence and