High and Low (1963)

ALL 03/01/1963 (ja) Drama, Crime, Thriller 142 Min
  • Release
    03/01/1963
  • Production
    TOHO, Kurosawa Production
  • Rotten tomato
    83.14%
  • Original title
    天国と地獄
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.

Overview

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

  1. Akira Kurosawa

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Toshirō Mifune

    Kingo Gondo

  2. Tatsuya Nakadai

    Chief Detective Tokura

  3. Kyōko Kagawa

    Reiko Gondo

  4. Tatsuya Mihashi

    Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary

  5. Isao Kimura

    Detective Arai

  6. Kenjirō Ishiyama

    Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

  7. Takeshi Katō

    Detective Nakao

  8. Takashi Shimura

    Chief of Investigation Section

  9. Jun Tazaki

    Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director

  10. Nobuo Nakamura

    Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

  11. Yūnosuke Itō

    Baba - National Shoes Executive

  12. Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

  13. Minoru Chiaki

    First Reporter

  14. Eijirō Tōno

    Factory Worker

  15. Masao Shimizu

    Prison Warden

  16. Yutaka Sada

    Aoki - the Chauffeur

  17. Masahiko Shimazu

    Shinichi Aoki

  18. Toshio Egi

    Jun Gondo

  19. Kōji Mitsui

    Second Reporter

  20. Kyū Sazanka

    First Creditor

  21. Susumu Fujita

    Chief of First Investigating Section

  22. Kamatari Fujiwara

    Junkyard Cook

  23. Yoshio Tsuchiya

    Detective Murata

  24. Kazuo Kitamura

    Third Reporter

  25. Gen Shimizu

    Chief Physician

  26. Akira Nagoya

    Detective Yamamoto

  27. Jun Hamamura

    Second Creditor

  28. Masao Oda

    First Executor at Tax Office

  29. Kō Nishimura

    Third Creditor

  30. Yoshifumi Tajima

    Chief Prison Officer

  31. Koji Kiyomura

    Fish Market Office Worker

  32. Hiroshi Unayama

    Detective Shimada

  33. Yoshisuke Makino

    Detective Takahashi

  34. Jun Kondô

    Identification Center Worker

  35. Tomo Suzuki

    Detective Koike

  36. Senkichi Ōmura

    Messenger Passing Note to Intern

  37. Kazuo Kato

    Identification Center Worker

  38. Ikio Sawamura

    Yokohama Station Trolley Man

  39. Kin Sugai

    Female Drug Addict

  40. Keiko Tomita

    Murder Victim

  41. Isao Onoda

    Male Drug Addict

  42. Seiichi Taguchi

    Detective Nakamura

  43. Takeo Matsushita

    Second Executor at Tax Office

  44. Kiyoshi Yamamoto

    Detective Ueno

  45. Kenji Kodama

    Detective Hara

  46. Minoru Itō

    Detective

  47. Haruo Suzuki

    Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'

  48. Kōzō Nomura

    Detective (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 48 , Crews : 32

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High and Low (1963) 142 Min

ALL 03/01/1963 (ja)
Drama, Crime, Thriller
  • Release 03/01/1963
  • Production
    TOHO, Kurosawa Production
  • Original title 天国と地獄
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.

Overview

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

  1. Akira Kurosawa

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Akira Kurosawa

    Editor

  4. Ryūzō Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Akira Kurosawa

    Producer