High and Low
is a 1963 Japanese police procedural crime film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kyōko Kagawa. The film is loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter).
Plot
A wealthy executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is in a struggle to gain control of a company called National Shoes. One faction wants the company to make cheap, low-quality shoes for the impulse market as opposed to the sturdy and high-quality shoes currently being produced. Gondo believes that the long-term future of the company will be best served by well-made shoes with modern styling, though this plan is unpopular because it means lower profits in the short term. He has secretly set up a leveraged buyout to gain control of the company, mortgaging all he has.
More details
| author | Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Yokohama |
| director | Akira Kurosawa |
| editor | Akira Kurosawa |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | abduct break claim death sentence drug addict force id kidnap kill leveraged buyout move phone call run serve set up test the national toshiro mifune |
| musicBy | Masaru Sato |
| producer | Akira Kurosawa |
| recordedAt | Japan |
| theme | japanese neo-noir police police procedural |