High and low = Tengoku to jigoku

High and low Tengoku to jigoku

DVD - 2008

A crime thriller of startling suspense and complexity, in which the son of a wealthy manufacturer is thought kidnapped, but then it is discovered that the son of the chauffeur has been taken by mistake. Gondo is faced with the choice of either paying the ransom and facing financial ruin or letting a little boy die.

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Subjects
Kidnapping > Drama.
Executives > Japan > Drama.
Mistaken identity > Drama.
Shoe industry > Japan > Drama.
Social classes > Japan > Drama.
Crime films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Detective and mystery films.
Film adaptations.
Genres
Crime films
Feature films
Fiction films
Detective and mystery films
Film adaptations
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection [2008]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Kurosawa Purodakushon, Janus Films
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha (production company), Kurosawa Purodakushon, Janus Films
Other Authors
Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998 (film director), Ryūzō Kikushima, 1914-1989 (film producer), Hideo Oguni, 1904-1996 (screenwriter), Eijirō Hisaita, 1898-1976 (actor), Tomoyuki Tanaka, 1910-1997 (-), Toshirō Mifune, 1920-1997, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1932-, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, 1923-2004, Ed McBain, 1926-2005
Edition
Special edition double-disc set
Item Description
Originally released as motion picture in 1963.
Based on the book King's ransom by edition McBain (a.k.a. Evan Hunter).
Special features include: Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince; a 37-minute making-of documentary; rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune; new video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki; theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC region 1; Dolby Digital surround; enhanced for 19:9 widescreen TVs.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Nakai Asakazu, Saitō Takao ; music, Satō Masaru.
ISBN
9781604650532
  • Disc 1. The film
  • Disc 2. The supplements.
Review by Library Journal Review

Toshiro Mifune as a business mogul confronting a kidnapper. Based on the Ed McBain novel King's Ransom. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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