High and Low

High and Low (1963)

Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!

Drama Crime

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

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  • Release Date: 1963-03-01
  • Runtime: 2h 22min
  • Director: Akira Kurosawa

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • Toshirō Mifune

      Kingo Gondo

    • Tatsuya Nakadai

      Chief Detective Tokura

    • Kyōko Kagawa

      Reiko Gondo

    • Tatsuya Mihashi

      Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary

    • Isao Kimura

      Detective Arai

    • Kenjirō Ishiyama

      Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

    • Takeshi Katō

      Detective Nakao

    • Takashi Shimura

      Chief of Investigation Section

    • Jun Tazaki

      Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director

    • Nobuo Nakamura

      Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

    • Yūnosuke Itō

      Baba - National Shoes Executive

    • Tsutomu Yamazaki

      Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

    • Minoru Chiaki

      First Reporter

    • Eijirō Tōno

      Factory Worker

    • Masao Shimizu

      Prison Warden

    • Yutaka Sada

      Aoki - the Chauffeur

    • Masahiko Shimazu

      Shinichi Aoki

    • Toshio Egi

      Jun Gondo

    • Kōji Mitsui

      Second Reporter

    • Kyū Sazanka

      First Creditor

    • Susumu Fujita

      Chief of First Investigating Section

    • Kamatari Fujiwara

      Junkyard Cook

    • Yoshio Tsuchiya

      Detective Murata

    • Kazuo Kitamura

      Third Reporter

    • Gen Shimizu

      Chief Physician

    • Akira Nagoya

      Detective Yamamoto

    • Jun Hamamura

      Second Creditor

    • Masao Oda

      First Executor at Tax Office

    • Kō Nishimura

      Third Creditor

    • Yoshibumi Tajima

      Chief Prison Officer

    • Koji Kiyomura

      Fish Market Office Worker

    • Hiroshi Unayama

      Detective Shimada

    • Yoshisuke Makino

      Detective Takahashi

    • Jun Kondô

      Identification Center Worker

    • Tomo Suzuki

      Detective Koike

    • Senkichi Ōmura

      Messenger Passing Note to Intern

    • Kazuo Katō

      Identification Center Worker

    • Ikio Sawamura

      Yokohama Station Trolley Man

    • Kin Sugai

      Female Drug Addict

    • Keiko Tomita

      Murder Victim

    • Isao Onoda

      Male Drug Addict

    • Seiichi Taguchi

      Detective Nakamura

    • Takeo Matsushita

      Second Executor at Tax Office

    • Kiyoshi Yamamoto

      Detective Ueno

    • Kenji Kodama

      Detective Hara

    • Minoru Itō

      Detective

    • Haruo Suzuki

      Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'

    • Kōzō Nomura

      Detective (uncredited)

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