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High and Low

Tengoku to jigoku

1963

PG-13

715515085915

8.4

71,076

Drama | Foreign | Thriller

Japan | Japanese | Color | 02:23

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Akira Kurasawa's exquisitely crafted adaptation of an Ed McBain mystery and is one of the greatest suspense films ever made. Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai star in a film about a kidnapping that goes terribly wrong.
Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's exemplary film noir. Based on Ed McBain's detective novel "King's Ransom," High and Low is both a riveting thriller and a brilliant commentary on contemporary Japanese society.

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	Toshirô Mifune	Kingo Gondô
	Tatsuya Nakadai	Chief Detective Tokura
	Kyôko Kagawa	Reiko Gondô
	Tatsuya Mihashi	Kawanishi - Gondô's Secretary
	Isao Kimura	Detective Arai
	Kenjiro Ishiyama	Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
	Takeshi Kato	Detective Nakao
	Takashi Shimura	Chief of Investigation Section
	Jun Tazaki	Kamiya - National Shoes Publicity Director
	Nobuo Nakamura	Ishimaru - National Shoes Design Department Director
	Yunosuke Ito	Baba - National Shoes Executive
	Tsutomu Yamazaki	Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
	Minoru Chiaki	First Reporter
	Eijiro Tono	Factory Worker
	Masao Shimizu	Prison Warden
	Yutaka Sada	Aoki - the Chauffeur
	Masahiko Shimazu	Shin'ichi Aoki
	Toshio Egi	Jun Gondô
	Koji Mitsui	Second Reporter
	Kyu Sazanka	First Creditor
	Susumu Fujita	Chief of First Investigating Section
	Kamatari Fujiwara	Junkyard Cook
	Yoshio Tsuchiya	Detective Murata
	Kazuo Kitamura	Third Reporter
	Gen Shimizu	Chief Physician

Crew View all

Director	Akira Kurosawa
Writer	Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Evan Hunter
Producer	Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
Musician	Masaru Satô
Photography	Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saitô

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Edition details

Edition	Criterion
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Subtitles	English
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date	Jul 26, 2011
Regions	A