High and Low

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni Evan Hunter Masaru Satô Tomoyuki Tanaka Shirô Moritani Yoshirô Muraki Ryûzô Kikushima Ryûzô Kikushima Asakazu Nakai Yôichi Matsue Katsuhiro Kato Takao Saitô Eijirô Hisaita Teruyo Nogami Miyuki Suzuki Kenjirô Ohmori Kazutami Hara Akio Nojima Reiko Kaneko Hisashi Shimonaga Masanobu Deme Hiromitsu Mori Fumio Yanoguchi Hiroshi Nezu Ichirô Minawa Ichirô Inohara Masaharu Ueda

Actors:

Toshirō Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Kyôko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Isao Kimura Kenjiro Ishiyama Takeshi Katô Takashi Shimura Jun Tazaki Nobuo Nakamura Yūnosuke Itō Tsutomu Yamazaki Minoru Chiaki Eijirō Tōno Masao Shimizu Yutaka Sada Masahiko Shimazu Toshio Egi Kôji Mitsui Kyû Sazanka Susumu Fujita Kamatari Fujiwara Yoshio Tsuchiya Kazuo Kitamura Gen Shimizu Akira Nagoya Jun Hamamura Masao Oda Kô Nishimura Yoshifumi Tajima Koji Kiyomura Hiroshi Unayama Yoshisuke Makino Jun Kondô Satoshi Suzuki Senkichi Ômura Kazuo Katô Ikio Sawamura Kin Sugai Keiko Tomita Isao Onoda Seiichi Taguchi Takeo Matsushita Kiyoshi Yamamoto Kenji Kodama Minoru Itô Haruo Suzuki Kôzô Nomura

Genre:

Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime

Country: no data

Year: 1963

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An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

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Hideo Kojima

Director, Screenwriter, Designer

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almost 5 years ago

Stanley Kubrick, Hitchcock, Kurosawa: My father always showed me these directors’ movies, whether I liked it or not. I’m selecting Kurosawa’s High and Low because it’s a little different. It’s based on a story by Ed McBain, and it’s about a kidnapping. During those times in Japan, if you kidnapped someone, you weren’t penalized too much. To have a harsher sentence, other charges, like drugs, were needed. But because of High and Low, the law in Japan changed. The movie had made a positive impact in society. That’s my kind of wish when I create a game. I think entertainment has that power to change society. You don’t have to be a politician or run for a cause to create change. High and Low was, in that sense, really impactful.

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