High and Low (1963) movie poster

High and Low (1963)

天国と地獄
"Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!"
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👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 94%
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Runtime
2h 22m
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
TMDB Rating
8.3/10 (1,093 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
90

Cast

Toshirō Mifune as Kingo Gondo · 87% avg
Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura · 87% avg
Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo · 86% avg
Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary · 84% avg
Isao Kimura as Detective Arai
Kenjirō Ishiyama as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Takeshi Katō as Detective Nakao
Takashi Shimura as Chief of Investigation Section · 87% avg

Is High and Low good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#124 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#1 / 16 · 1963
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 12 · Akira Kurosawa
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Crime Movies on HBO Max (#4) · The Best Thriller Movies on HBO Max (#5) · Best Free Thriller Movies on Plex (#6) · Top 250 Movies of All Time (#191)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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

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What Reddit Thinks

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First Image of Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest'. Starring Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright and Ice Spice - Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain.
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Top comment: "Ice Spice? Did I read that right?"
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