High and Low

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Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo

Tatsuya Nakadai as Inspector Tokuro

Kyoko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo

Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanshi

Yutaka Sada as Aoki

Kenjiro Ishiyama as Detective Taguchi

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ginji Takeuchi

Takashi Shimura as Chief

Susumu Fujita as Commissioner

Isao Kimura as Detective Arai

Takeshi Kato as Detective Nakao

Hiroshi Unayama Detective Shimada

Koji Mitsui as Newspaperman

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Murata

Writers

Hideo Oguni (screenplay)

Ryuzo Kikushima (screenplay)

Eijiro Hisaita (screenplay)

Akira Kurosawa (screenplay)

Ed McBain (novel ‘ King’s Ransom’)


Summary

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Genre

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Released

March 1, 1963 (Japan)

Runtime

2hrs 23min

MPAA

Not Rated

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