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HIGH AND LOW

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration! ‘Akira Kurosawa Restorations’
YEAR
1963
ACCESSIBILITY
HI
FORMAT
DCP
RUNTIME
2h 23m
RATING
NR
DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
CAST
Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

SYNOPSIS

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.
LANGUAGE
In Japanese with English subtitles

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