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Opens August 15, 2025
In Spike Lee’s contemporary interpretation of Kurosawa’s High and Low, music mogul (Denzel Washington) is targeted with a ransom plot and jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Tickets on sale August 1.
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When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth time in their long-working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.
- Director: Spike Lee
- Principal Cast: Denzel Washington, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice, A$AP Rocky, Elijah Wright, Aubrey Joseph
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 133 min.
- Producer: Todd Black, Jason Michael berman
- Screenplay: Alan Fox, based on the novel "King’s Ransom by Ed McBain," based on Akira Kurosawa’s film High and Low written by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Eijiro Hisaita
- Cinematographers: Matthew Libatique
- Editors: Barry Alexander Brown, Allyson C. Johnson
- Music: Howard Drossin
- Filmography: BlacKkKlansman (2018), Chi-Raq (2015), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), Old Boy (2013), Passing Strange (2009), Inside Man (2006), She Hate Me (2004), 25th Hour (2002), Bamboozled (2000), The Original Kings of Comedy (2000), Summer of Sam (1999),He Got Game (1998), 4 Little Girls (1997), Get on the Bus (1996), Girl 6 (1996), Crooklyn (1994), Malcolm X (1992), Jungle Fever (1991), Mo' Better Blues (1990). Do the Right Thing (1989), School Daze (1988), She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Language: Engilsh
- US Distributor: A24, Apple TV+