High and Low (1963)

4.6
/ 10
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2h 22m
Running Time

March 1, 1963
Release Date

High and Low (1963)

4.6
/ 10
5 User Ratings
2h 22m
Running Time

March 1, 1963
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
Toho Company, Ltd.
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Plot.

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.

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Details.

Release Date
March 1, 1963

Original Name
天国と地獄

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 22m

Content Rating
NR

Budget
$250,000

Filming Locations
Japan

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

manager
ransom
kidnapping
blackmail
chauffeur
baby-snatching
police
shoe
japanese noir
emaciation
noir
showa
yokohama

Wiki.

High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄, Hepburn: Tengoku to Jigoku, lit. 'Heaven and Hell') is a 1963 Japanese police procedural crime film directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, and Tsutomu Yamazaki, it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondo (Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company at which he is a board member. He plans a leveraged buyout of the company with his life savings, when kidnappers led by Ginjirō Takeuchi (Yamazaki) mistakenly kidnap his chauffeur's son to ransom him for 30 million yen.

Production began in 1962 at Toho Studios. Shot mostly on location at Yokohama, and on set at Toho, filming lasted from 2 September to 30 January 1963. The film has been regarded as embodying the post-World War II Japanese economic miracle prior to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, particularly in its highlighted use of the Kodama express train. High and Low's approach to issues of social class and narrative structure have been praised, with technical elements—such as the film's blocking—receiving particular attention. Post-production took just under a month, and after test-screenings in mid-February 1963, it received a wide distribution.

Released in Japan on 1 March 1963, High and Low received generally positive reviews both domestically and abroad, and became the highest-grossing film at the Japanese domestic box office that year. It was in the Official Selection for the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globe Awards for 1964. The film has since received greater acclaim, and is often considered to be among Kurosawa's greatest films. It is viewed as influential on police procedural cinema, and has been remade multiple times internationally.

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