{"product_id":"high-and-low-blu-ray","title":"High and Low Blu-ray","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eHigh and Low\u003c\/strong\u003e' Director: Akira Kurosawa (1963) BFI Blu-ray | Restoration | \u003cem\u003eJapanese w\/ English subtitles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on an Ed McBain novel, comes the gripping police thriller starring Kurosawa stalwart Toshirō Mifune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeur’s boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHigh and Low\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnapper’s state of mind. Kurosawa’s virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, the police and the criminal as equally brutal, but nonetheless human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial features include:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Newly recorded audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – High and Low\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2002, 38 mins): the director discusses how High and Low came to exist, and how specific sequences were filmed. Also features interviews with actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, and Tatsuya Mihashi, as well as cameraman Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda and script supervisor Teruyo Nogami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Film Shop IFI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49323566071947,"sku":"lrd1788777996162","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5150\/1195\/files\/high-and-low-blu-ray_1.jpg?v=1788778000","url":"https:\/\/www.everydaynook.shop\/products\/high-and-low-blu-ray","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}