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March 28, 2026… #movieoftheday is High and Low (full movie) (1963.).
“High and Low ( Japanese : 天国と地獄, Hepburn : Tengoku to Jigoku ; lit. 'Heaven and Hell') is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa . It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni , Eijirō Hisaita and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter .
“Starring Toshirō Mifune , Tatsuya Nakadai , Kyōko Kagawa and Tatsuya Mihashi , it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondō (Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company of which he is a board member. He plans a leveraged buyout of the company with his life savings, when a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur's son to ransom him for ¥30 million. The film is viewed as influential on police procedural cinema and has been remade multiple times internationally…
“High and Low was released in Japan on March 1, 1963, and became the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office for that year. The film received generally positive reviews both domestically and abroad. In September 1963, the film was entered into the Official Selection for the Venice Film Festival . The limited American release of the film in late November coincided with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy , an event that led to a depression in initial box office takings. High and Low was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globe Awards for 1964. Critical opinion of the film has remained high, with analyses of the film focusing on Kurosawa's humanism in tackling the issue of a growing class divide, the growth of an international consumer culture, and the film's use of structure to interrogate morality and social division.” - more at Wikipedia
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbv35YIxCA
#HighAndLow #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
“High and Low ( Japanese : 天国と地獄, Hepburn : Tengoku to Jigoku ; lit. 'Heaven and Hell') is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa . It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni , Eijirō Hisaita and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter .
“Starring Toshirō Mifune , Tatsuya Nakadai , Kyōko Kagawa and Tatsuya Mihashi , it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondō (Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company of which he is a board member. He plans a leveraged buyout of the company with his life savings, when a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur's son to ransom him for ¥30 million. The film is viewed as influential on police procedural cinema and has been remade multiple times internationally…
“High and Low was released in Japan on March 1, 1963, and became the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office for that year. The film received generally positive reviews both domestically and abroad. In September 1963, the film was entered into the Official Selection for the Venice Film Festival . The limited American release of the film in late November coincided with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy , an event that led to a depression in initial box office takings. High and Low was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globe Awards for 1964. Critical opinion of the film has remained high, with analyses of the film focusing on Kurosawa's humanism in tackling the issue of a growing class divide, the growth of an international consumer culture, and the film's use of structure to interrogate morality and social division.” - more at Wikipedia
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbv35YIxCA
#HighAndLow #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
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