• 1963

  Release Date

• March 1st, 1963

• Runtime

• 142 minutes

• Synopsis

• Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential High and Low. Adapting Ed McBain's detective Novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a penetrating portrait of contempory Japanese society.

• CAST

• Toshirō Mifune - Kingo Gondo,   Tatsuya Nakadai - Chief Detective Tokura,   Kyōko Kagawa - Reiko Gondo,   Tatsuya Mihashi - Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary,   Isao Kimura - Detective Arai,   Kenjirō Ishiyama - Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi,   Takeshi Katō - Detective Nakao,   Takashi Shimura - Chief of Investigation Section,   Jun Tazaki - Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director,   Nobuo Nakamura - Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director,   Yūnosuke Itō - Baba - National Shoes Executive,   Tsutomu Yamazaki - Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern,   Minoru Chiaki - First Reporter,   Eijirō Tōno - Factory Worker,   Masao Shimizu - Prison Warden,   Yutaka Sada - Aoki - the Chauffeur,   Masahiko Shimazu - Shinichi Aoki,   Toshio Egi - Jun Gondo,   Kōji Mitsui - Second Reporter,   Kyū Sazanka - First Creditor,   Susumu Fujita - Chief of First Investigating Section,   Kamatari Fujiwara - Junkyard Cook,   Yoshio Tsuchiya - Detective Murata,   Kazuo Kitamura - Third Reporter,   Gen Shimizu - Chief Physician,   Akira Nagoya - Detective Yamamoto,   Jun Hamamura - Second Creditor,   Masao Oda - First Executor at Tax Office,   Kō Nishimura - Third Creditor,   Yoshibumi Tajima - Chief Prison Officer,   Koji Kiyomura - Fish Market Office Worker,   Hiroshi Unayama - Detective Shimada,   Yoshisuke Makino - Detective Takahashi,   Jun Kondô - Identification Center Worker,   Tomo Suzuki - Detective Koike,   Senkichi Ōmura - Messenger Passing Note to Intern,   Kazuo Katō - Identification Center Worker,   Ikio Sawamura - Yokohama Station Trolley Man,   Kin Sugai - Female Drug Addict,   Keiko Tomita - Murder Victim,   Isao Onoda - Male Drug Addict,   Seiichi Taguchi - Detective Nakamura,   Takeo Matsushita - Second Executor at Tax Office,   Kiyoshi Yamamoto - Detective Ueno,   Kenji Kodama - Detective Hara,   Minoru Itō - Detective,   Haruo Suzuki - Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict',   Kōzō Nomura - Detective (uncredited)     

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