High and Low [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

High and Low [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Masaru Sato
Masaru Sato
, Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune
, Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
, Kyoko Kagawa
Kyoko Kagawa
Akira Kurosawa
High and Low [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

High and Low [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Masaru Sato
Masaru Sato
, Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune
, Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
, Kyoko Kagawa
Kyoko Kagawa
Akira Kurosawa

Blu-ray (Black & White / Wide Screen)

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Overview

Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt Gondo. As the harried businessman prepares to pay the ransom, he discovers that his son is safe at home: the kidnappers have accidentally snatched the son of his chauffeur. Does Gondo drop his payoff plans, or does he do the honorable thing and rescue his employee's son? This dilemma is but one aspect of the multilayered character study from the unbeatable team of star Toshiro Mifune and filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who directs this superb film with his usual depth and impeccable eye for detail and character. As a man forced to make impossible decisions, Mifune gives a nuanced, perceptive and psychologically convincing performance. While not one of Kurosawa's master works, High and Low, with its grim reality and moral ambiguity stands as a superb example of film noir at its best. High and Low was originally released in Japan as Tengoku To-Jigoku.

Product Details

Release Date: 07/26/2011
UPC: 0715515085915
Original Release: 1962
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:23:00
Sales rank: 7,986

Special Features

Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince ; Thrity-seven-minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create ; Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, from 1984; Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki; Theatrical trailers and teaser

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Toshiro Mifune Kingo Gondo
Tatsuya Nakadai Chief Detective Tokura
Kyoko Kagawa Reiko Gondo
Tatsuya Mihashi Kawanishi
Yutaka Sada Aoki
Kenjiro Ishiyama Detective Taguchi
Tsutomu Yamazaki Ginji Takeuchi
Takashi Shimura Director
Susumu Fujita Commissioner
Ko Kimura Detective Arai
Takeshi Kato Detective Nakao
Yoshio Tsuchiya Detective Murata
Hiroshi Unayama Detective Shimada
Koji Mitsui Newspaperman

Technical Credits
Ryuzo Kikushima Producer
Akira Kurosawa Director
Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer
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