High and Low (Criterion Collection)

Toshiro Mifune (SEVEN SAMURAI) is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosowa (RASHOMON). Adapting Ed McBains detective novel KINGS RANSOM, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.