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Tengoku to jigoku = High and low / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Toho-Kurosawa Production ; produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kikushima ; written by Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Akira Kurosawa ; cinematography by Asakazu Nakai and Takao Saito ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, producer, screenwriter, director.
Tanaka, Tomoyuki, 1910-1997, producer.
Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989, producer, screenwriter.
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, screenwriter.
Hisaita, Eijirō, 1898-1976, screenwriter.
Saitō, Takao, 1929-2014, director of photography.
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, actor.
Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-2025, actor.
Kagawa, Kyōko, actor.
Mihashi, Tatsuya, 1923-2004, actor.
Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981, actor.
Katō, Takeshi, 1929-2015, actor.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, actor.
Nakamura, Nobuo, 1908-1991, actor.
Ito, Yūnosuke, actor.
Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936- actor.
Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999, actor.
Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994, actor.
Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988, director of photography.
Satō, Masaru, 1928-1999, composer.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, producer.
Kurosawa Purodakushon, producer.
Janus Films, producer.
Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.
Series:
AK100 (Criterion Collection (Firm)) ; disc 21.
25 films by Akira Kurosawa.
AK100 ; [disc 21]
25 films by Akira Kurosawa
Language:
English
Japanese
Subjects (All):
Kidnapping--Drama.
Kidnapping.
Feature films.
Executives.
Japan.
Executives--Japan--Drama.
Feature films--Japan.
Genre:
Drama.
Detective and mystery films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
monochrome
Edition:
Widescreen.
Other Title:
High and low
AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa.
Place of Publication:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
Language Note:
In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.
System Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; surround.
digital
optical
surround
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
A complex crime thriller in which the son of a chauffer is kidnapped, mistaken as the son of the chauffer's employer, a wealthy shoe manufacturer. A moral dilemma. Should the wealthy man pay the ransom anyway and risk losing his financial position?
Participant:
Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Kato, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yunosuke Ito, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Minoru Chiaki, Eijiro Tono, Yutaka Sada.
Credits:
Music by Masaru Sato ; production design by Yoshiro Muraki.
Notes:
Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
Issued as part of the box set AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa with book included (96 p. : ill. ; 19 x 31 cm.).
ISBN:
9781604652260
1604652268
OCLC:
476336392
Publisher Number:
715515052016
AK100D21 Criterion Collection
CC1858D Criterion Collection (set)

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