Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper inHigh and Low,the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novelKing’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.
New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Documentary on the making ofHigh and Low,created as part of theToho MasterworksseriesAkira Kurosawa: It IsWonderful to Create
Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
Trailers and teaser
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richi
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
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High and Low (4K UHD, #24)
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper inHigh and Low,the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novelKing’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.
New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Documentary on the making ofHigh and Low,created as part of theToho MasterworksseriesAkira Kurosawa: It IsWonderful to Create
Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
Trailers and teaser
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richi
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
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Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper inHigh and Low,the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novelKing’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.
New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Documentary on the making ofHigh and Low,created as part of theToho MasterworksseriesAkira Kurosawa: It IsWonderful to Create
Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
Trailers and teaser
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richi
