Akira Kurosawa: High and Low (New 4K Restoration)
July 25 - August 14, 2025
Akira Kurosawa: A Retrospective
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in this highly influential domestic drama and police procedural. New 4K restoration.
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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.
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Principal Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada
- Country: Japan
- Year: 1963
- Running Time: 143 min.
- Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay: Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
- Cinematographers: Asakazu Nakai
- Music: Masaru Sato
- Filmography: Ran (1985), Kagemusha (1980), Red Beard (1965), High and Low (1963), Sanjuro (1962), Yojimbo (1961), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Throne of Blood (1957), Seven Samurai (1954), Ikiru (1952), Rashomon (1950), Stray Dog (1949), Drunken Angel (1948)
- Language: Japanese
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: 4K DCP
- US Distributor: Janus Films