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Title:
High and low = Tengoku to jigoku
Series Number:
24.
Summary:
A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy Japanese shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.

Director: Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay: Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa ; producers: Ryūzō Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka.--Booklet, p. 9.

Based on the novel King's ransom by Ed McBain.

Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

NTSC.
Contents:
Special features: Widescreen verson enhanced for 16x9 TVs -- disc 1. Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince -- New, restored high-definition digital transfer -- Language: Japanese Dolby digital surround -- Subtitles: English. disc 2. 37-minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part ot the Toho Masterworks series "Akira Kurosawa: It is wonderful to create" -- Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, conducted by TV talk-show host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi -- New video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki who plays the kidnapper -- Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages ; 19 cm).
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2008

1963
ISBN:
9781604650532
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, ©2008, ©1963.
Call Number:
DVD HIGHAND
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