High and Low
From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.
Overview
A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.
I have to admit that I expected a bit more as this movie and director are held in high regards by so many famous movie critics. Don’t get me wrong, there are some fascinating themes on display in the first half of the movie. But it just seemed rather odd that those themes seemed to be tossed aside in the second half for a rather pedestrian case about police work. The movie was at its best in Gondo’s home.
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Movie title: High and Low
Movie description: A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.
Date published: 2024-03-15
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
Actor(s): Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama, Takeshi Katō, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yūnosuke Itō, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Minoru Chiaki, Eijirō Tōno, Masao Shimizu, Yutaka Sada, Masahiko Shimazu, Toshio Egi, Kōji Mitsui, Kyū Sazanka, Susumu Fujita, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kazuo Kitamura, Gen Shimizu, Akira Nagoya, Jun Hamamura, Masao Oda, Kō Nishimura, Yoshifumi Tajima, Koji Kiyomura, Hiroshi Unayama, Yoshisuke Makino, Jun Kondô, Tomo Suzuki, Senkichi Ōmura, Kazuo Kato, Ikio Sawamura, Kin Sugai, Keiko Tomita, Isao Onoda, Seiichi Taguchi, Takeo Matsushita, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Kenji Kodama, Minoru Itō, Haruo Suzuki, Kōzō Nomura
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
My Review
I have to admit that I expected a bit more as this movie and director are held in high regards by so many famous movie critics. Don’t get me wrong, there are some fascinating themes on display in the first half of the movie. But it just seemed rather odd that those themes seemed to be tossed aside in the second half for a rather pedestrian case about police work. The movie was at its best in Gondo’s home.
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My Review - 7/10
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