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title: 'High and Low (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Akira Kurosawa'
released: '1963-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 143
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/high-and-low-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# High and Low (1963)

1963 · 143 min · Drama, Crime · Japan

Original title: 天国と地獄

## Synopsis

High and Low  is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa and Tatsuya Mihashi, it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondō (Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company of which he is a board member. He plans a leveraged buyout of the company with his life savings, when a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur's son to ransom him for ¥30 million. The film is viewed as influential on police procedural cinema, and has been remade multiple times internationally.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Hideo Oguni](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideo-oguni), [Ryūzō Kikushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryuzo-kikushima)
- **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Producer:** [Ryūzō Kikushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryuzo-kikushima)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Masaru Sato](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaru-sato)
- **Director of Photography:** [Takao Saito](https://cinepixo.com/people/takao-saito), [Asakazu Nakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/asakazu-nakai)

## Cast

- [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune)
- [Tatsuya Nakadai](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatsuya-nakadai)
- [Kyōko Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyoko-kagawa)
- [Minoru Chiaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/minoru-chiaki)
- [Kamatari Fujiwara](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamatari-fujiwara)
- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono)
- [Isao Kimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/isao-kimura)
- [Kin Sugai](https://cinepixo.com/people/kin-sugai)
- [Tsutomu Yamazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsutomu-yamazaki)
- [Takeshi Katō](https://cinepixo.com/people/takeshi-kato)
- [Susumu Fujita](https://cinepixo.com/people/susumu-fujita)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/high-and-low-1963
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