

High and Low
1963 · Movie · 2h 22m · NR
DramaCrimeThriller
"Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!"
Overview
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Ratings
IMDb
8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
90/100
Key crew
- Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Ryuzo KikushimaScreenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
- Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Toshirō MifuneKingo Gondo
- Tatsuya NakadaiChief Detective Tokura
- Kyōko KagawaReiko Gondo
- Tatsuya MihashiKawanishi, Gondo's secretary
- Isao KimuraDetective Arai
- Kenjirō IshiyamaChief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
- Takeshi KatōDetective Nakao
- Takashi ShimuraChief of Investigation Section
- Jun TazakiKamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
- Nobuo NakamuraIshimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
- Yūnosuke ItōBaba - National Shoes Executive
- Tsutomu YamazakiGinjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
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Themes
chauffeurpoliceransommanagerkidnappingblackmailheroinfilm noirblack and whiteshoecriminal investigationjapanese noir























