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.

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential domestic drama and police procedural High And Low. 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. Criterion is proud to present High And Low (Tengoko to jigoku) in this new high-definition digital transfer.

Product details

Actor	Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Takeshi Katô
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Label	CRITERION

Content	DVD
Edition	Criterion Collection
FSK / age rating	from age 12
Publication date	22.07.2008
Genre	Drama Crime Mystery

EAN	0715515030922
Audio	Japanese
Subtitles	English
Year of production	1963
Original title	Tengoku to jigoku (Japanese)
Region code	1
Version	US Version

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the pulse runs high!

Written on 28. December 2002 by der Koma-läufer.

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ultra spannendes, minimalistisches meisterwerk. mit dabei natürlich der beste schauspieler aller zeiten Toshiro mifune

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High and Low (1963) Criterion Collection English · DVD

High and Low (1963)
Criterion Collection English · DVD