High and Low
天国と地獄
Drama
Crime
Thriller
Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
1963-03-01
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Cast
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirō Mifune as Kingo Gondo
Tatsuya Nakadai as Chief Detective Tokura
Kyōko Kagawa as Reiko Gondo
Tatsuya Mihashi as Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
Isao Kimura as Detective Arai
Kenjirō Ishiyama as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Takeshi Katō as Detective Nakao
Takashi Shimura as Chief of Investigation Section
Jun Tazaki as Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
Nobuo Nakamura as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Yūnosuke Itō as Baba - National Shoes Executive
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Minoru Chiaki as First Reporter
Eijirō Tōno as Factory Worker
Masao Shimizu as Prison Warden
Yutaka Sada as Aoki - the Chauffeur
Masahiko Shimazu as Shinichi Aoki
Kōji Mitsui as Second Reporter
Kyū Sazanka as First Creditor
Susumu Fujita as Chief of First Investigating Section
Kamatari Fujiwara as Junkyard Cook
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Murata
Kazuo Kitamura as Third Reporter
Gen Shimizu as Chief Physician
Akira Nagoya as Detective Yamamoto
Jun Hamamura as Second Creditor
Masao Oda as First Executor at Tax Office
Kō Nishimura as Third Creditor
Yoshibumi Tajima as Chief Prison Officer
Tomo Suzuki as Detective Koike
Senkichi Ōmura as Messenger Passing Note to Intern
Kazuo Katō as Identification Center Worker
Ikio Sawamura as Yokohama Station Trolley Man
Kin Sugai as Female Drug Addict
Keiko Tomita as Murder Victim
Kiyoshi Yamamoto as Detective Ueno
Kenji Kodama as Detective Hara
Haruo Suzuki as Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'
Kōzō Nomura as Detective (uncredited)