High and Low

About High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

High and Low (1963) is a crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Released in March 1963, it runs 142 minutes.

Toshirō Mifune appears as Kingo Gondo, Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura, Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo, and Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary. Written by Akira Kurosawa and Eijiro Hisaita.

Members will find audacious, film noir, blackmail, and anxious in it. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Gone Baby Gone, Scarface, and Fargo make useful companions to High and Low, all filed under kidnapping. It scores 8.4 out of 10 from 1,229 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.