High and Low
Dir: Kurosawa Akira
Japan, 1963, 143minmins, 35mm
Cast: Mifune Toshiro, Nakadai Tatsuya,Kagawa Kyoko
Regarded as one of Kurosawa Akira’s best modern dramas of conscience, High and Low is engaged with moral and social questions wrapped in an engrossing suspense thriller. Footwear magnate Gondo (Mifune) is the target-on-high of the impoverished medical student Ginjiro. When Ginjiro mistakenly kidnapped the wrong son, Gondo is caught in a moral dilemma of whether or not to pay the ransom. The mercurial Mifune Toshiro unveils a simmering emotional volcano, struggling from terrible rage of ambition to truthful compassion. As to Kurosawa, humane values illuminate the heaven on earth.
#2 in 1963 Kinema Junpo’s Top 10
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
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EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction
Remarks
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