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High and low [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Akira Kurosawa.

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Criterion Collection, c2008.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 24.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Tengoku to jigoku [videorecording (DVD)]

Heaven and hell [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2-disc special ed.

2 videodiscs (ca. 143 min.) : Dolby digital Surround sd., b&w with color sequences ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Based on the novel King's ransom by Ed McBain.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1963.

Special features: Disc One: New, restored high-definition digital transfer with original four-track surround sound ; audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; Disc two: A 37-minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is wonderful to create ; rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, conducted by TV talk-show host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ; new video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper ; theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S. ; PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and an on-set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie.

2.35:1 aspect ratio.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Screenplay, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa ; producers, Ryuzo Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka ; director, Akira Kurosawa.

Mifune Toshirō, Nakadai Tatsuya, Kagawa Kyōko and Mihashi Tatsuya.

"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 domestic drama and police procedural 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 diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society. Criterion is proud to present High And Low (Tengoko to jigoku) in this new high-definition digital transfer."--Container,

Japanese films.

Thriller films.

McBain, Ed, 1926-2005. King's ransom.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.

Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-

Kagawa, Kyōko.

Mihashi, Tatsuya, 1923-2004.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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