High and Low
Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 142 min. Format: 4K Digital Release Year: 1963 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Isao Kimura, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune
Screenwriters: Eijirô Hisaita, Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni from the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)
Producers: Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, best known for his sweeping samurai epics, takes on the modern crime thriller with stylish composition and expert pacing for one riveting cinema experience. Toshirō Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society. Don’t miss this stunning cinema essential in its new 4K restoration on our big screen!
And join us in the microcinema from September 5th – 10th to see Spike Lee’s new reinterpretation of this Japanese cinema classic in Highest 2 Lowest.
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