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High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄, Hepburn: Tengoku to Jigoku, literally "Heaven and Hell") is a 1963 Japanese police procedural crime film directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa and written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, and Ryûzô Kikushima.
High and Low: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi. An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Based on Ed McBain's detective novel "King's Ransom," "High and Low" is both a riveting thriller and a brilliant commentary on contemporary Japanese society.
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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.
High and Low. 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.
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.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. From Akira Kurosawa, director of “Yojimbo” and “Sanjuro” comes a tense, taut film of a modern “perfect crime” with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create. In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servant’s son is kidnapped. Remove Ads.
Kingo Gondo, the factory manager at National Shoes, which is known for manufacturing durable but plain footwear, lives with his wife Reiko and their adolescent son Jun in a lavish house atop a hill overlooking the city of Yokohama.
High And Low (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Something Fishy Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is grabbed from the shower as the kidnapper makes clear he can see the house, and chauffeur Aoki (Yutaka Sada) tries to thank his boss, in a key moment from Akira Kurosawa's High And Low, 1963.
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped. Akira Kurosawa. Director, Screenplay.
