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Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.
Original Release
03/01/1963
US Release
11/26/1963
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Kingo Gondo |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Chief Detective Tokura |
Kyoko Kagawa | Reiko Gondo |
Tatsuya Mihashi | Kawanishi - Gondo's Secretary / Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary |
Isao Kimura | Detective Arai |
Kenjirô Ishiyama | Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi |
Takeshi Katô | Detective Nakao |
Takashi Shimura | Chief of Investigation Section |
Jun Tazaki | Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director |
Nobuo Nakamura | Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director |
Directors
Writers
Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Evan Hunter
Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Kingo Gondo |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Chief Detective Tokura |
Kyoko Kagawa | Reiko Gondo |
Tatsuya Mihashi | Kawanishi - Gondo's Secretary / Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary |
Isao Kimura | Detective Arai |
Kenjirô Ishiyama | Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi |
Takeshi Katô | Detective Nakao |
Takashi Shimura | Chief of Investigation Section |
Jun Tazaki | Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director |
Nobuo Nakamura | Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director |
Yunosuke Ito | Baba - National Shoes Executive |
Tsutomu Yamazaki | Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern |
Minoru Chiaki | First Reporter |
Eijirô Tôno | Factory Worker |
Masao Shimizu | Prison Warden |
Yutaka Sada | Aoki - the Chauffeur |
Masahiko Shimazu | Shinichi Aoki |
Toshio Egi | Jun Gondo |
Kôji Mitsui | Second Reporter |
Kyû Sazanka | First Creditor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ryûzô Kikushima | Producer |
Akira Kurosawa | Producer |
Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1964 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Film | Nominated |