High and Low
1963 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan
It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for ransom. All the money he has raised will be sunk into the ransom. Any price to get his son back, thinks Gondo. But what about somebody else's son?
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kenji Kodama · Isao Kimura · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Takeshi Katô · Jun Tazaki · Nobuo Nakamura · Yûnosuke Itô · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Minoru Chiaki · Eijirô Tono · Masao Shimizu · Masahiko Shimazu · Koji Mitsui · Kyû Sazanka · Susumu Fujita · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kazuo Kitamura · Gen Shimizu · Akira Nagoya · Jun Hamamura · Masao Oda · Kô Nishimura · Yoshifumi Tajima · Kôji Kiyomura · Hiroshi Unayama · Satoshi Suzuki · Senkichi Omura · Kazuo Katô · Ikio Sawamura · Kin Sugai · Keiko Tomita · Isao Onoda · Kiyoshi Yamamoto · Haruo Suzuki
Soundtrack Masaru Satô
Screenplay Hideo Oguni · Akira Kurosawa · Ryuzo Kikushima · Eijiro Hisaito · Evan Hunter
Cinematography Asakazu Nakai · Takao Saito
Original title Tengoku to Jigoku (High and Low)
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9K votes (FilmAffinity)
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