High and Low

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 High and Low 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.

High and Low was released in 1963 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 142 minutes.