High and Low is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel
Theatrical release poster
Evan Hunter (credited under his pen name Ed McBain) c. 1953
A preserved Kodama express train, as seen in the film
The scholar Donald Richie analogises Gondō and the police to Dante and Virgil in the Divine Comedy as parties to a moral conflict.
Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itsel
High and Low (1963 film)
…for TV Asahi. The plot of the miniseries Full Circle (2023) was inspired by High and Low. A reinterpretation of the film directed by Spike Lee, titled Highest 2 Lowest, was released in 2025. List of works by Akira Kurosawa…