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Toho Co.
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Featuring: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Isao Kimura, Ko Kimura, Takeshi Kato, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Unayama, Koji Mitsui, Tsutomu Yamazaki
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.
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Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
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Japanese 4.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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English
Region:
1
Discs:
2 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Thirty-seven minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create
- Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, from 1984
- New video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Theatrical trailers and teaser
- A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and an on-set account by Japanese film-scholar Donald Richie
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Release Credits
Artwork: Lucien S. Y. Yang
Producer: Abbey Lustgarten
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