# High and Low (1963)

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**Original title**: *天国と地獄*
**Runtime**: 142 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima
**Starring**: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama

> *Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, paranoid, raw, slow-burn

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