HIGH AND LOW (CRITERION) (BLU-RAY)

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kazuo Kitamura, Gen Shimizu, Akira Nagoya, Kô Nishimura, Yoshifumi Tajima, Koji Shimizu, Hiroshi Unanzan, Yoshisuke Makino, Jun Kondo, Tomoo Suzuki, Senkichi Omura, Kazuo Kato, Ikio Sawamura, Jun Hamamura, Masao Oda, Kazuo Suzuki, Kôzô Nomura, Toshio Egi, Masahiko Shimazu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Katô, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yûnosuke Itô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Hiroshi Unayama, Eijirô Tono, Masao Shimizu, Yutaka Sada, Koji Mitsui, Susumu Fujita, Kyu Sazanka, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kin Sugai, Keiko Tomita, Isamu Onoda, Seiichi Taguchi, Takeo Matsushita, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Kenji Kodama, Minoru Ito, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita, Evan Hunter, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saitô, Reiko Kaneko, Masaru Satô, Jun Sakuma
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:23
• Company: Toho Co., Ltd., Kurosawa Production Co., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie