UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations
High and Low (Tengoku To Jigoku) | Japan | 1963 | 35mm | 143 min. | Japanese with English subtitles Director: Akira Kurosawa
Event Details
Date
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura
Mifune stars as Gondo, a wealthy shoe company executive who is told his son has been kidnapped. As he begins rounding up his entire fortune to pay the huge ransom, Gondo realizes the kidnapper has snatched his chauffeur’s son by mistake! This gritty, screw-tightening thriller, based on an American novel by Ed McBain, is, along with Ikiru, the best of Kurosawa’s non-period pictures.
Mifune stars as Gondo, a wealthy shoe company executive who is told his son has been kidnapped. As he begins rounding up his entire fortune to pay the huge ransom, Gondo realizes the kidnapper has snatched his chauffeur’s son by mistake! This gritty, screw-tightening thriller, based on an American novel by Ed McBain, is, along with Ikiru, the best of Kurosawa’s non-period pictures.
Cost
Free
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