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High and Low - Criterion Collection (1963)
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| Starring: | Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Kato |
| Director: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Genre: | Foreign, Japan, Mystery/Thriller, Drama |
| Year: | 1963 |
| Studio: | Criterion |
| Length: | 143 minutes |
| Released: | July 22, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | Japanese(Original Language), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS: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 domestic drama and police procedural High and Low (Tengoko to jigoku). Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society. Criterion is proud to present High and Low in this new high-definition digital transfer.
NOTE: This release has a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, with newly restored original four-track surround sound. As well as a new and improved English subtitle translation.
BONUS FEATURES:
DISC 1:
- New audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
DISC 2:
- A 37-minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Rare archival interview with Toshiro Mifune
- New video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper
- Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie
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