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Criterion LaserDiscs High And Low WS LaserDiscs Akira Kurosawa

High And Low WS LaserDiscs Akira Kurosawa

Japanese Language with English Subtitles...

High And Low WS LaserDiscs Akira Kurosawa

Japanese Language with English Subtitles...

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High And Low WS LaserDiscs Akira Kurosawa

Japanese Language with English Subtitles...

Exceptionally Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket

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Exceptionally Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket

Akira Kurosawa's...

High and Low

CinemaDisc Collection

( Catalog Number ID5334PA )
(2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

High and Low
1962 - 143 min. - Color  Black and White
Genre: Thriller

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Based on KING'S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshir

Cast for High and Low

Toshiro Mifune - Kingo Gondo
Kyoko Kagawa - Reiko, Gondo's Wife
Tatsuya Nakadai - Inspector Tokura
Yutaka Sada - Aoki
Kenjiro Ishiyama - Detective Taguchi
Yoshio Tsuchiyama - Detective Murata
Takashi Shimura - Director
Hiroshi Unayama - Det. Shimado
Tsutomu Yamazaki - Ginji Takeuchi
Takeshi Kato - Detective Nakao
Susumu Fujita - Commissioner
Koji Mitsui - Reporter
Ko Kimura - Detective Arai
Tatsuya Mihashi - Kawanishi

Crew for High and Low

Tomoyuki Tanaka - Producer
Eijiro Hisaita - Screenwriter
Ryuzo Kikushima - Screenwriter / Producer
Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter / Director
Hideo Oguni - Screenwriter
Asakazu Nakai - Cinematographer
Choichi Nakai - Cinematographer
Takao Saito - Cinematographer
Masaru Sato - Composer (Music Score)
Shinobu Muraki - Production Designer
Yoshiro Muraki - Art Director
Herman G. Weinberg - Art Director

Movie Review for LaserDisc LD:
Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt Gondo. As the harried businessman prepares to pay the ransom, he discovers that his son is safe at home: the kidnappers have accidentally snatched the son of his chauffeur. Does Gondo drop his payoff plans, or does he do the honorable thing and rescue his employee's son This dilemma is but one aspect of the multilayered character study from the unbeatable team of star Toshiro Mifune and filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who directs this superb film with his usual depth and impeccable eye for detail and character. As a man forced to make impossible decisions, Mifune gives a nuanced, perceptive and psychologically convincing performance. While not one of Kurosawa's master works, High and Low, with its grim reality and moral ambiguity stands as a superb example of film noir at its best. High and Low was originally released in Japan as Tengoku To-Jigoku. (Synopsis by Hal Erickson)

Kurosawa's adaptation of Ed McBain's police procedural is a Dostoevskian morality play told with dazzlingly choreographed long takes. Toshiro Mifune stars as a business executive who begins to gather a ransom large enough to bankrupt his business after getting a note from kidnappers about a stolen child. When his son turns up, he realizes that it

Feature Details

Title: High and Low
Feature Release Date: 1962
Genre: Thriller
Color: Color Black and White
Runtime: 143 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

IMDB Info...

Technical Details

Catalog Number: ID5334PA
UPC: 014381533460
Manufacturer: 3M or IMATION
Collection: CinemaDisc Collection
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: Japanese
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID5334PA
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Exceptionally Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket

Akira Kurosawa's...

High and Low

CinemaDisc Collection

( Catalog Number ID5334PA )
(2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

High and Low
1962 - 143 min. - Color  Black and White
Genre: Thriller

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Based on KING'S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshir

Cast for High and Low

Toshiro Mifune - Kingo Gondo
Kyoko Kagawa - Reiko, Gondo's Wife
Tatsuya Nakadai - Inspector Tokura
Yutaka Sada - Aoki
Kenjiro Ishiyama - Detective Taguchi
Yoshio Tsuchiyama - Detective Murata
Takashi Shimura - Director
Hiroshi Unayama - Det. Shimado
Tsutomu Yamazaki - Ginji Takeuchi
Takeshi Kato - Detective Nakao
Susumu Fujita - Commissioner
Koji Mitsui - Reporter
Ko Kimura - Detective Arai
Tatsuya Mihashi - Kawanishi

Crew for High and Low

Tomoyuki Tanaka - Producer
Eijiro Hisaita - Screenwriter
Ryuzo Kikushima - Screenwriter / Producer
Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter / Director
Hideo Oguni - Screenwriter
Asakazu Nakai - Cinematographer
Choichi Nakai - Cinematographer
Takao Saito - Cinematographer
Masaru Sato - Composer (Music Score)
Shinobu Muraki - Production Designer
Yoshiro Muraki - Art Director
Herman G. Weinberg - Art Director

Movie Review for LaserDisc LD:
Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt Gondo. As the harried businessman prepares to pay the ransom, he discovers that his son is safe at home: the kidnappers have accidentally snatched the son of his chauffeur. Does Gondo drop his payoff plans, or does he do the honorable thing and rescue his employee's son This dilemma is but one aspect of the multilayered character study from the unbeatable team of star Toshiro Mifune and filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who directs this superb film with his usual depth and impeccable eye for detail and character. As a man forced to make impossible decisions, Mifune gives a nuanced, perceptive and psychologically convincing performance. While not one of Kurosawa's master works, High and Low, with its grim reality and moral ambiguity stands as a superb example of film noir at its best. High and Low was originally released in Japan as Tengoku To-Jigoku. (Synopsis by Hal Erickson)

Kurosawa's adaptation of Ed McBain's police procedural is a Dostoevskian morality play told with dazzlingly choreographed long takes. Toshiro Mifune stars as a business executive who begins to gather a ransom large enough to bankrupt his business after getting a note from kidnappers about a stolen child. When his son turns up, he realizes that it

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