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High and Low

Original title: Tengoku to jigoku · Turkish title: Yüksek ve Alçak

“Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!”

1963 · 2 h 23 min
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
CrimeDramaMystery

Cast

Toshiro Mifune Tatsuya Mihashi Kyoko Kagawa Tsutomu Yamazaki

Credits

Written by: Hideo Oguni

Plot

A wealthy executive must decide whether to pay a ransom when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake, and the police hunt the kidnapper.

Sinekatalog’s take

Kurosawa's crime film splits in two: a kidnapping drama in a hillside mansion, then a procedural through the city's underbelly. A study of class and moral choice that moves like a thriller.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.4 / 10 (74,007 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset; Rotten Tomatoes snapshot from October 2026. Scores change over time.

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