El cielo y el infierno

Yokohama, stifling summer noon. A single kid’s shoe, scuffed and abandoned, beside a canal. A luxury executive gets a ransom call for the wrong child and must decide: pay and lose face or let the boy die. Streets thicken with sirens, heat, silence. Kurosawa turns moral calculus into a noir symphony.

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Akira Kurosawa directed El cielo y el infierno in 1963. See Akira Kurosawa's full filmography, where to start with Akira Kurosawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Akira Kurosawa.

El cielo y el infierno was released in 1963 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 142 minutes.