High and Low (Blu-ray) standard edition
HIGH AND LOW (1963) directed by Akira Kurosawa, iis a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune and based on an Ed McBain novel.
Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeurâs boy by mistake â but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.
An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, HIGH AND LOW is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapperâs state of mind. Kurosawaâs virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.
No booklet included.
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High and Low (Blu-ray) standard edition
HIGH AND LOW (1963) directed by Akira Kurosawa, iis a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune and based on an Ed McBain novel.
Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeurâs boy by mistake â but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.
An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, HIGH AND LOW is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapperâs state of mind. Kurosawaâs virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.
No booklet included.
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HIGH AND LOW (1963) directed by Akira Kurosawa, iis a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune and based on an Ed McBain novel.
Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeurâs boy by mistake â but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.
An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, HIGH AND LOW is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapperâs state of mind. Kurosawaâs virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.
No booklet included.
