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High and Low

Lists: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime / Heist

Brief Synopsis: "Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential High and Low. Adapting Ed McBain's detective Novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a penetrating portrait of contempory Japanese society."

Overall Ranking: - (Rank from 1963: # 0)


Rating:
97
Adjusted* Rating:
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-

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People Involved



  • Toshirô Mifune (Kingo Gondo)
  • Tatsuya Nakadai (Chief Detective Tokura)
  • Kyôko Kagawa (Reiko Gondo)
  • Tatsuya Mihashi (Kawanishi, Gondos secretary)
  • Isao Kimura (Detective Arai)
  • Kenjiro Ishiyama (Chief Detective Bosn 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)
  • Yûnosuke Itô (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)
  • 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 (as Masao Orita))
  • Kô Nishimura (Third Creditor)
  • Yoshifumi Tajima (Chief Prison Officer)
  • Koji Kiyomura (Fish Market Office Worker (as Kôji Kiyomura))
  • Hiroshi Unayama (Detective Shimada)
  • Yoshisuke Makino (Detective Takahashi)
  • Jun Kondô (Identification Center Worker)
  • Satoshi Suzuki (Detective Koike)
  • Senkichi Ômura (Messenger Passing Note to Intern)
  • Kazuo Katô (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 Itô (Detective)
  • Haruo Suzuki (Undercover Detective Drug Addict)
  • Kôzô Nomura (Detective (uncredited))
  • Akira Kurosawa (Director)