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

Yoshibumi 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 ing Note to Intern

Kazuo Katō
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)

Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography

Miyuki Suzuki
Costume Design

Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay / Director / Associate Producer / Editor

Ryūzō Kikushima
Screenplay / Producer

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design

Evan Hunter
Novel

Hideo Oguni
Screenplay

Takao Saitō
Director of Photography

Eijirō Hisaita
Screenplay

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

Kenjirô Ohmori
Assistant Director

Yōichi Matsue
Assistant Director

Reiko Kaneko
Editorial Production Assistant

Teruyo Nogami
Script Supervisor

Shirō Moritani
Assistant Director
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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.
Wiki.
High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄, Hepburn: Tengoku to Jigoku, lit. 'Heaven and Hell') is a 1963 Japanese police procedural directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō 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 a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur's son to ransom him for 30 million yen.
Production began in 1962 at Toho Studios. Filming took place on location at Yokohama and on set at Toho; it lasted from 2 September to 30 January 1963. The film has been seen to represent a moral conflict within the backdrop of the post–World War II Japanese economic miracle. 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.
High and Low was released in Japan on 1 March 1963 and received generally positive reviews both domestically and abroad. It 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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