High and low = Tengoku to jigoku

Author

Akira Kurosawa

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2008]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Kingo Gondo is a wealthy Japanese industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the book King's ransom by Ed McBain.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.

Contents

• Special features: audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince ; a 37-minute documentary on the making of High and low, created as part ot the Toho Masterworks series "Akira Kurosawa : it is wonderful to create" ; rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, conducted by TV talk-show host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ; video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper ; theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.