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High and Low (Blu-ray) standard edition

High and Low (Blu-ray) standard edition

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Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, and Takashi Shimura

Region: B

HIGH AND LOW (1963) directed by Akira Kurosawa, iis a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune and based on an Ed McBain novel.

Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeur’s boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.

An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, HIGH AND LOW is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapper’s state of mind. Kurosawa’s virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.

No booklet included.

Label: BFI

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Country: Japan

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Language: Japanese

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Special Features

  • Presented in High Definition
  • Newly recorded audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp
  • Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – High and Low (2002, 38 mins): the director discusses how High and Low came to exist, and how specific sequences were filmed. Also features interviews with actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, and Tatsuya Mihashi, as well as cameraman Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda and script supervisor Teruyo Nogami

Technical Specifications

  • Runtime: 149 minutes

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