High and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Writers:
Eijiro Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa.
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Toshirō Mifune as Kingo Gondo |
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura |
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Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo |
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Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary |
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Isao Kimura as Detective Arai |
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Kenjirō Ishiyama as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi |
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Takeshi Katō as Detective Nakao |
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Takashi Shimura as Chief of Investigation Section |
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Jun Tazaki as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Baba - National Shoes Executive |
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Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern |
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Minoru Chiaki as First Reporter |
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Eijirō Tōno as Factory Worker |
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Masao Shimizu as Prison Warden |
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Yutaka Sada as Aoki - the Chauffeur |
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Masahiko Shimazu as Shinichi Aoki |
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Toshio Egi as Jun Gondo |
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Kōji Mitsui as Second Reporter |
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Kyū Sazanka as First Creditor |
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Susumu Fujita as Chief of First Investigating Section |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Junkyard Cook |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Murata |
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Kazuo Kitamura as Third Reporter |
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Gen Shimizu as Chief Physician |
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Akira Nagoya as Detective Yamamoto |
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Jun Hamamura as Second Creditor |
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Masao Oda as First Executor at Tax Office |
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Kō Nishimura as Third Creditor |
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Yoshibumi Tajima as Chief Prison Officer |
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Koji Kiyomura as Fish Market Office Worker |
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Hiroshi Unayama as Detective Shimada |
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Yoshisuke Makino as Detective Takahashi |
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Jun Kondô as Identification Center Worker |
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Tomo Suzuki as Detective Koike |
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Senkichi Ōmura as Messenger Passing Note to Intern |
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Kazuo Katō as Identification Center Worker |
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Ikio Sawamura as Yokohama Station Trolley Man |
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Kin Sugai as Female Drug Addict |
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Keiko Tomita as Murder Victim |
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Isao Onoda as Male Drug Addict |
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Seiichi Taguchi as Detective Nakamura |
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Takeo Matsushita as Second Executor at Tax Office |
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Kiyoshi Yamamoto as Detective Ueno |
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Kenji Kodama as Detective Hara |
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Minoru Itō as Detective |
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Haruo Suzuki as Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict' |
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Kōzō Nomura as Detective (uncredited) |
| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Production Design |
| Writing | Eijiro Hisaita | Screenplay |
| Camera | Takao Saitō | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Director |
| Writing | Ryuzo Kikushima | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hideo Oguni | Screenplay |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Camera | Asakazu Nakai | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Miyuki Suzuki | Costume Design |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Production | Ryuzo Kikushima | Producer |
| Writing | Evan Hunter | Novel |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Yōichi Matsue | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kenjirô Ohmori | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Reiko Kaneko | Editorial Production Assistant |
| Directing | Teruyo Nogami | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Masanobu Deme | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Ichirô Minawa | Sound Effects Editor |
| Lighting | Hiromitsu Mori | Lighting Technician |
| Production | Hiroshi Nezu | Production Supervisor |
| Camera | Kazutami Hara | First Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Shirō Moritani | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Yudai Kato | Camera Intern |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Mixer |
| Lighting | Ichirō Inohara | Lighting Technician |
| Crew | Akio Nojima | Property Master |
| Production | Akira Kurosawa | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Masaharu Ueda | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Fumio Yanoguchi | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Akira Kurosawa | Editor |
