Sunday, November 27, 2022
High and Low
- Commentary: Under construction.
In 1998 Roger Ebert wrote an interesting and thoughtful retrospective of Akira Kurosawa's work. If you're a fan, it's a great place for suggestions of other Akira Kurosawa movies to watch and contemplate.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Toshirô Mifune Kingo Gondo Tatsuya Nakadai Insp Tokura Kyōko Kagawa Reiko Gondo Tatsuya Mihashi Kawanishi Kenjiro Ishiyama Chief Det Taguchi Isao Kimura Det Arai Takeshi Katō Det Nakao Yutaka Sada Chauffeur Aoki Tsutomu Yamazaki Ginjirô Takeuchi Takashi Shimura Chief of Investigations Susumu Fujita Mgr of Investigations Yoshio Tsuchiya Det Murata Jun Tazaki National Shoes Publicity Dir Kamiya Nobuo Nakamura National Shoes Design Dep Dir Ishimaru Yunosuke Ito National Shoes Exec Kamatari Fujiwara Incineration Worker
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1963
Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Labels: akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, neo-noirA, police-procedural, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune