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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.
LIBRA DVD 015 827
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- Format:
- Video
- 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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