SYNOPSIS: 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. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.
| Kingo Gondo | Toshiro Mifune |
| Reiko | Kyoko Kagawa |
| Kawanishi | Tatsuya Mihashi |
| Inspector Tokuro | Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Aoki | Yutaka Sada |
| Director | Takashi Shimura |
| Commissioner | Susumu Fujita |
| Detective Taguchi | Kenjiro Ishiyama |
| Detective Arai | Ko Kimura |
| Detective Nakao | Takeshi Kato |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kikushima |
| Screenplay | Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Art direction | Yoshiro Muraki |
| Lighting | Ichiro Inohara |
| Sound | Hisahi Shimonaga |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
By October 12, 1998
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October 27, 2008
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