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, 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 class and contemporary Japanese society.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Trailers and teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Trailers and teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune
- Kingo Gondo
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Inspector Tokura
- Kyoko Kagawa
- Reiko Gondo
- Tatsuya Mihashi
- Kawanishi, Gondo’s secretary
- Yutaka Sada
- Aoki, the chauffeur
- Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Takeuchi, the medical intern
- Isao Kimura
- Detective Arai
- Kenjiro Ishiyama
- Head Detective “Bos’n” Taguchi
- Takeshi Kato
- Detective Nakao
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Detective Murata
- Takashi Shimura
- Chief of Investigation Headquarters
- Susumu Fujita
- Head of Investigation Section
- Jun Tazaki
- Kamiya, National Shoes
- Nobuo Nakamura
- Ishimaru, National Shoes
- Yunosuke Ito
- Baba, National Shoes
- Minoru Chiaki
- First reporter
- Eijiro Tono
- Factory worker
- Toshio Egi
- Jun Gondo
- Masahiko Shimazu
- Shinichi Aoki
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Junkyard laborer
- Kin Sugai
- Female drug addict
- Ikio Sawamura
- Trolley man
Credits
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Screenplay
- Hideo Oguni
- Screenplay
- Eijiro Hisaita
- Screenplay
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa
- Based on the book King’s Ransom by
- Ed McBain
- Cinematographer
- Asakazu Nakai
- Cinematographer
- Takao Saito
- Assistant director
- Masanobu Deme
- Assistant director
- Yoichi Matsue
- Assistant director
- Shiro Moritani
- Assistant director
- Kenjiro Omori
- Assistant editor
- Reiko Kaneko
- Original music
- Masaru Sato
- Additional music from “Die Forelle”
- Franz Schubert
- Production designer
- Yoshiro Muraki
- Lighting
- Hiromitsu Mori
- Script supervisor
- Teruyo Nogami
- Sound recordist
- Fumio Yanoguchi
- Sound effects
- Ichiro Minawa
- Sound mixer
- Hisashi Shimonaga
- Set decorator
- Akio Nojima
- Costumes
- Miyuki Suzuki
- Production manager
- Hiroshi Nezu
- Still photographer
- Masao Fukuda
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A scene from High and Low
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