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High and Low is a Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in Japan on 1 March 1963. It is a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom , by Evan Hunter under the pen name Ed McBain. Starring Toshirō Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondō, who plans to use his life savings in a leveraged buyout. When kidnappers mistakenly abduct his chauffeur's son for ransom—believing the boy to be Gondō's son Jun—Gondō must decide whether to use the money to complete the buyout or pay the ransom. High and Low became the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office for 1963. It received positive reviews both domestically and abroad, with critical attention focusing on the film's structure, the moral humanism of Kurosawa's depiction of the class divide, and the use of blocking to demonstrate character relationships. The film has been influential among modern filmmakers, and has been remade multiple times internationally. ( Full article... )

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