Movie
High and Low
Overview
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Details
- Release date
- 1963-03-01
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TOHO, Kurosawa Production
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Kingo Gondo
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura
- Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
- Isao Kimura as Detective Arai
- Kenjirō Ishiyama as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
- Takeshi Katō as Detective Nakao
- Takashi Shimura as Chief of Investigation Section
- Jun Tazaki as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
- Nobuo Nakamura as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
- Yūnosuke Itō as Baba - National Shoes Executive
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa - Director
- Akira Kurosawa - Screenplay
- Ryuzo Kikushima - Screenplay
- Hideo Oguni - Screenplay
- Eijiro Hisaita - Screenplay
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