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High and Low

Tengoku to Jigoku (High and Low)

1963

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura ...

8.4

10,487

Film noir. Thriller. Mystery. Drama It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for ransom. All the money he has raised will be sunk into the ransom. Any price to get his son back, thinks Gondo. But what about somebody else's son?

	Author	Review
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"High and Low illuminates its world with a wholeness and complexity you rarely see in film"	POS
United States	The New York Times	"One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"This lesser known Kurosawa feature is worth a look, with outstanding performances and stunning cinematography (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[A] masterful crime thriller (...) One of the remarkable things about the movie is how those halves interact, as the suffocating tension of confinement gives way to the open air."	POS
United States	Glenn Heath Jr. Slant	"Not only does 'High and Low' successfully bridge competing vantage points and motivations, it establishes an evocative discourse on class by demystifying classic genre conventions (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

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