High and Low - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low, 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 class and contemporary Japanese society.

• Japan
• 143 minutes
• Black and White/Color
• 2.35:1
• Japanese
• Spine #24
• 1963

Blu-Ray Special Edition Features

- Restored high-definition digital transfer, with original four-track surround sound, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Trailers and teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie

*Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang