Film · 1963 · Detective thriller
High and Low
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1963
Japan
★ 7.8 editorial score
Kurosawa spends the entire first hour inside one house and it is unbearable: a rich man learns the kidnappers took the wrong child and still want his money.
“Let's give fervent thanks for "High and Low," one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed...a sizzling, artistic crackerjack and a model of its genre, pegged on a harassed man's moral decision, laced with firm characterizations and tingling detail and finally attaining an incredibly colorful crescendo of microscopic police sleuthing. Crime, believe us, doesn't pay in Yokohama—not in the end.”
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