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| ''High and Low'' is remarkable, in part, because it very clearly illustrates the divide between the rich and the poor in 1960s-era ]. | ''High and Low'' is remarkable, in part, because it very clearly illustrates the divide between the rich and the poor in 1960s-era ]. | ||
| It is filmed entirely in black and white apart from a few seconds when a cloud of red smoke billows up from the city. | |||
| ==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
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1963 film| High and Low | |
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| File:High And Low Poster.jpgHigh and Low Criterion Collection DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Written by | Eijirô Hisaita Evan Hunter (novel King's Ransom) Ryuzo Kikushima Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni |
| Produced by | Ryuzo Kikushima Akira Kurosawa Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Starring | Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Kyôko Kagawa |
| Music by | Masaru Satô |
| Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. The Criterion Collection |
| Release date | March 1963 (Japan) |
| Running time | 143 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
High and Low (天国と地獄, Tengoku to jigoku, literally "Heaven and Hell") is a 1963 film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was loosely based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct police procedural by Evan Hunter (written under the pseudonym Ed McBain).
High and Low is remarkable, in part, because it very clearly illustrates the divide between the rich and the poor in 1960s-era Japan.
It is filmed entirely in black and white apart from a few seconds when a cloud of red smoke billows up from the city.
Plot
The story tells of an executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) who mortgages all he has to stage a leveraged buyout and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of its other incompetent and greedy executives. Then he learns that his son has been kidnapped. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted the child of Gondo's chauffeur, instead of his own son. One thread of the plot revolves around how he deals with this ethical dilemma, while the other thread follows the police and their procedure as they put together the clues to find the kidnapped child.
Main cast
- Toshirô Mifune - Kingo Gondo
- Tatsuya Nakadai - Chief Detective Tokura
- Kyôko Kagawa - Reiko Gondo
- Tatsuya Mihashi - Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
- Isao Kimura - Detective Arai
- Kenjiro Ishiyama - Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
- Takeshi Katô - Detective Nakao
- Takashi Shimura - Chief of Investigation Section
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