High and Low
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| Released: | November 26, 1963 |
| Director: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer: | Ryuzo Kikushima, Ryûzô Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Studio: | Toho Company |
| Cast: | Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kyoko Kagawa, Isao Kimura, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Hiroshi Unayama |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Length: | 142 minutes |
High and Low Synopsis
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential domestic drama and police procedural High and Low. 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 class and contemporary Japanese society.