Akira Kurosawa - High.and.low.1963.jpn.criterio... Jun 2026
Akira Kurosawa, High and Low 1963, Criterion Collection, Japanese cinema, Toshiro Mifune, film noir, police procedural, 4K restoration.
“You up there in your cool mansion… you don’t know what it’s like down here. That’s why I wanted to bring you down.”
High and Low is loosely based on Ed McBain’s crime novel King’s Ransom , but Kurosawa transplants the story to Yokohama, Japan, infusing it with post-war anxieties about class stratification.
Akira Kurosawa, High and Low 1963, Criterion Collection, Japanese cinema, Toshiro Mifune, film noir, police procedural, 4K restoration.
“You up there in your cool mansion… you don’t know what it’s like down here. That’s why I wanted to bring you down.”
High and Low is loosely based on Ed McBain’s crime novel King’s Ransom , but Kurosawa transplants the story to Yokohama, Japan, infusing it with post-war anxieties about class stratification.