143 mins |
Rated
Not Rated
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Kimura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune
CHELSEA CLASSICS: REPertory PREPeration -
4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, 143min)
Come see Spike Lee's inspiration for his upcoming Highest 2 Lowest starring Denzel Washington!
Toshiro 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.
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CHELSEA CLASSICS: REPertory PREPeration -
4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, 143min)
Come see Spike Lee's inspiration for his upcoming Highest 2 Lowest starring Denzel Washington!
Toshiro 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.
