High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963)

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8.6	Rating (203 ratings)
8.5	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Starring (View all)

Kenji Kodama
Detective Hara

Ikio Sawamura
Yokohama Station Trolley Man

Kazuo Katô
Identification Center Worker

Keiko Tomita
Murder Victim

Kin Sugai
Female Drug Addict

Senkichi Omura
Messenger Passing Note to Intern

Kô Nishimura
Third Creditor

Jun Hamamura
Second Creditor

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Evan Hunter

Akira Kurosawa
(screenplay)

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A very good movie

9 years, 7 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 since 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 (7), Drama (6), Japanese (5), Crime (5), Kidnapping (4), Architecture (3), Suicide (3), Kurosawa (2), Bw (2), Drug (2), Foreign Language (2), Home (2), Not Foreign (2), Executive (2), Not Foreign Language (2), Shoe (2), Police (2), Train (2)

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