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High and Low

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High and Low
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2hrs 23min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1962
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai  ...more
Synopsis: Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt Gondo. As the harried businessman prepares to pay the ransom, he discovers that his son is safe at home: the kidnappers have accidentally snatched the son of ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello
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Kurosawa's adaptation of Ed McBain's police procedural is a Dostoyevskian morality play told with dazzlingly choreographed long takes. Toshiro Mifune stars as a business executive who begins to gather a ransom large enough to bankrupt his business after getting a note from kidnappers about a stolen child. When his son turns up, he realizes that it was his chauffeur's son who was abducted, and must ... Full Review
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Toshiro Mifune
Kingo Gondo
Kyoko Kagawa
Reiko, Gondo's Wife
Tatsuya Nakadai
Inspector Tokura
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