High and Low at Roxy Cinema
High and Low
Tengoku to jigoku
--- 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.
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. HIGH AND LOW is a tightly directed and tense film noir that takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. ---
Presented in 4K
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--- 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.
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. HIGH AND LOW is a tightly directed and tense film noir that takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. ---
Presented in 4K
Tengoku to jigoku
--- 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.
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. HIGH AND LOW is a tightly directed and tense film noir that takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. ---
Presented in 4K
--- 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.
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. HIGH AND LOW is a tightly directed and tense film noir that takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. ---
Presented in 4K
High and Low
Tengoku to jigoku
--- 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.
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. HIGH AND LOW is a tightly directed and tense film noir that takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. ---
Presented in 4K
