High and Low 4K Restoration (Akira Kurosawa: A Retrospective)

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW, 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.

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, Spike Lee's remake of HIGH AND LOW, opens at Amherst Cinema on Friday, August 15. Catch both versions on the big screen!

HIGH AND LOW plays as part of Akira Kurosawa: A Retrospective, presenting 7 masterpieces in brand new restorations this August: https://amherstcinema.org/kurosawa

New 4K restoration by Toho Co., Ltd., released by Janus Films.

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