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Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), an executive of a prominent shoe business, mortgages his life to leverage an acquisition of the company. He is about to make the move when he receives a call from a man who has abducted his son, Jun, asking for a significant ransom. When it’s discovered that the son of Gondo’s loyal chauffeur was mistakenly kidnapped instead of Jun, he is still asked to pay, placing him in a moral dilemma. High and Low set a benchmark for the police procedural genre; influenced by noir, the film portrays the harsh realities and class divide of a country still grappling with the trauma of war.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1963 | 143 min. | Japan | Black-and-White | Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
WITH: Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa