Film: High and Low

While our allotment of advance tickets has sold out online, some additional tickets will be available to purchase at the door on a first come, first served basis on the night of the show. Box office & doors open approximately 1 hour before showtime. For shows that have sold out online, in-person ticket purchases are limited to 2 tickets per person.

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), 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. (Janus Films)

DIRECTOR Akira Kurosawa
WRITER Screenplay by Hideo Oguni & Ryûzô Kikushima & Eijirô Hisaita & Akira Kurosawa based on King’s Ransom by Ed McBain
STARRING Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada
YEAR 1963
COUNTRY Japan
FORMAT English subtitled 35mm
RUNNING TIME 143 minutes