Seven Samurai1954
Paired by the Criterion Channel, both on Johnnie To’s Top 10, both directed by Akira Kurosawa, both with commentary by Stephen Prince, and both starring Toshirō Mifune
High and Low
天国と地獄
Japan / Japanese / 1963 / 2h 22m
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №24
- Commentary
- 1 track on the Channel player
Synopsis
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. 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 contemporary Japanese society.
