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  • Title: High and Low (Criterion #24) (1963) [Tengoku to jigoku]
  • Summary: An executive learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount he has raised for a critical business deal.
  • Director: Akira Kurosawa
  • Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yutaka Sada, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
  • Year: 1963
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  • Keywords: Film Noir
  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: The Bad Sleep Well, Big Bang Love, Branded to Kill, Detective Story, Kurosawa, Stray Dog
  • Language: Japanese with English subtitles
  • Country: Japan
  • Comments: The DVDs include an audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince, a documentary about the making of the film, interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki and two theatrical trailers. New York Times 1000 Films
  • Collection: Drama