High and Low (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Yoshifumi 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 Kato
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)
Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Eijirō Hisaita
Screenplay
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography
Akira Kurosawa
Director / Screenplay / Associate Producer / Editor
Ryūzō Kikushima
Screenplay / Producer
Hideo Oguni
Screenplay
Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography
Miyuki Suzuki
Costume Design
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Evan Hunter
Novel
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Yōichi Matsue
Assistant Director
Kenjirô Ohmori
Assistant Director
Reiko Kaneko
Editorial Production Assistant
Teruyo Nogami
Script Supervisor
Masanobu Deme
Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1963
Original Name天国と地獄
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 22m
Content RatingNR
Budget$250,000
Filming LocationsJapan
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High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄, Hepburn: Tengoku to Jigoku, literally "Heaven and Hell") is a 1963 Japanese police procedural crime film directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa and written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, and Ryûzô Kikushima. The film is loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter). It follows the story of a board member for a Japanese company who is forced to make a decision between using a vast amount of wealth to gain executive control and helping his employee by lending him the money to free his child from kidnappers.
The film stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy man who puts himself into debt in a risky bid to enact a hostile takeover of National Shoes, and Tatsuya Nakadai as Inspector Tokura, the man charged with solving the kidnapping case. Filmed in Tokyo and Kanagawa, the film has been regarded as embodying a revitalised post-War Japan, particularly in anticipation of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Released in Japan on 1 March 1963, High and Low received highly positive reviews and has become highly appraised as one of Kurosawa's best films. With a budget of ¥230 million, it was the largest budget Kurosawa had worked with at the time and became the highest grossing film domestically that year. It has since been remade and reinterpreted numerous times both within Japan and internationally.