DVD
High and low = Tengoku to jigoku
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.