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Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential High and Low. Adapting Ed McBain's detective Novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a penetrating portrait of contempory Japanese society.
Movie rating: 8.4 / 10 (54738)
Directed by: Hideo Oguni - Akira Kurosawa - Ryuzo Kikushima - Eijiro Hisaita
Writer credits: Hideo Oguni - Hideo Oguni - Ryûzô Kikushima
Cast: Toshirô Mifune - Yutaka Sada - Tatsuya Nakadai - Kyôko Kagawa - Tatsuya Mihashi
AKA: The Ransom, High & Low, Tengoku to jigoku, Heaven and Hell