High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963)

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Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Starring (View all)

Toshirô Mifune
Kingo Gondo

Tatsuya Nakadai
Chief Detective Tokura

Kyôko Kagawa
Reiko Gondo

Tatsuya Mihashi
Kawanishi - Gondo's Secretary

Isao Kimura
Detective Arai

Kenjirô Ishiyama
Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

Takeshi Katô
Detective Nakao

Takashi Shimura
Chief of Investigation Section

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Hideo Oguni
(screenplay)

Ryûzô Kikushima
(screenplay)

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A very good movie

8 years, 11 months ago at Mar 31 11:28

johanlefourbe

More than 20 years ago, I started to get really interested in movies and I started to discover the great classics. In this journey, one of my first discoveries would be Akira Kurosawa. In the 90’s, I have seen many of his movies and he has been ever seen one of my favorite directors. Even though Kurosawa has been mostly famous for his samuraï movies (‘Rashomon’, ‘Ran’, ‘Kagemusha’, ... read more

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At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.

Release date: 1 March 1963
UPC: 037429130322

Tags: 1960s (10), Japan (9), 1963 (8), Drama (6), Crime (5), Japanese (5), Kidnapping (4), Suicide (3), Architecture (3), Not Foreign (2), Not Foreign Language (2), Executive (2), Shoe (2), Drug (2), Train (2), Home (2), Police (2), Thriller (2), Kurosawa (2), Foreign Language (2)

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