Friday, January 15th
7 p.m.
Radio-TV Building, rm 251
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan)
High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist who has just raised money to execute his planned takeover of a shoe manufacturer. He soon learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demand is nearly equivalent to the amount Mifune has raised for his corporate takeover. When it is revealed that Gondo's son is safe he realizes that it is actually his chauffer's son who has been kidnapped. Kurosawa here creates a detective thriller that also explores the class division in Japan, evidenced in the title. Loosely adapted from Ed McBain's novel King's Ransom. (142 minutes)
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