High And Low (aka Tengoku To Jigoku) Limited Edition Blu-Ray

High and Low, based on a novel by Ed McBain, is a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune. Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) is faced with a difficult choice when a ruthless kidnapper, who is after his young son, accidentally takes his chauffeur's boy instead—but still demands the ransom, and Gondo faces ruin if he does not pay. High and Low is a complex film noir, an anatomy of the inequalities of modern Japanese society, where the police's intense hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by a penetrating insight into the kidnapper's state of mind. Kurosawa's virtuoso direction offers no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal are equally brutal, yet human.

Extras

• Presented in high-definition format

   

• Newly recorded audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp

   

• Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create - High and Low (2002, 38 min): the director discusses how High and Low came about and how specific sequences were filmed. Also includes interviews with actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, and Tatsuya Mihashi, as well as cinematographers Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda, and script supervisor Teruyo Nogami.
• **FIRST PRINTING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with a new essay on the film by Alex Barrett, archival notes by Philip Kemp, and an original review from Monthly Film Bulletin

• Subtitles: : English