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Toshiro Mifune (SEVEN SAMURAI) 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 Kurosowa (RASHOMON). Adapting Ed McBains detective novel KINGS RANSOM, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.
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Toshiro Mifune (SEVEN SAMURAI) 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 Kurosowa (RASHOMON). Adapting Ed McBains detective novel KINGS RANSOM, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

A Tokyo detective's (Koji Yakusho) investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders, committed by seemingly average citizens who can't explain their motives, leads him to a mysterious and amnesiac drifter (Masato Hagiwara) who possesses an almost hypnotic ability to get what he wants from people. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's atmospheric thriller also stars Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Doguchi. 111 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack Japanese; Subtitles English; featurettes; theatrical trailers. In Japanese with English subtitles.