"High and Low"
1962
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of an Ed McBain mystery stars two of Japan's greats, Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, in a riveting American-style thriller set in modern-day Yokohama. Mifune stars as a self-made tycoon targeted by kidnappers. When he realizes they have taken his chauffeur's son and not his own, the millionaire faces a moral dilemma: to save the boy or save his empire from financial ruin. "One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed" (The New York Times). Japanese with new English subtitles. Letterboxed.
142 minutes.