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High And Low (Criterion Collection) (1963) On Blu-ray

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Actor :    Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre:     Drama
Year:         1963
Studio:    Criterion
Length:     143
Released: July 26, 2011
Rating:       Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:     Blu-ray Hi-Def DVD
Misc:          NTSC, Color,
Language: Japanese
subtitles:  English


DESCRIPTION:

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 McBain’s detective novel "King’s Ransom", Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

Special Features:

High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound

Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince

Documentary on the making of "High and Low"

Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune

Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper

Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and more!


Actor :    Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre:     Drama
Year:         1963
Studio:    Criterion
Length:     143
Released: July 26, 2011
Rating:       Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:     Blu-ray Hi-Def DVD
Misc:          NTSC, Color,
Language: Japanese
subtitles:  English


DESCRIPTION:

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 McBain’s detective novel "King’s Ransom", Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

Special Features:

High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound

Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince

Documentary on the making of "High and Low"

Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune

Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper

Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and more!


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