Film: "High and Low" (1963)
Saturday, September 27, 2025 3:00–5:30 PM
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- DescriptionClassics in the Browning
Directed by Akira KurosawaWith Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
Not Rated, 143 minutesIn Japanese with English subtitles
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low, the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa recently revamped by Spike Lee in Highest 2 Lowest. Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.
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*Co-presented by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema. - Websitehttps://events.nd.edu/events/2025/09/27/high-and-low-1963/
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