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High and Low
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 | DVD InfoYear: 1962 Country: Japan Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune Running time: 142 min Language: Japanese with English subtitles Distributed in Australia by: Director's Suite
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Synopsis:
Toshiro Mifune stars as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist and corporate Machiavelli on the brink of unrivalled success in the Japanese shoe industry when he becomes the target of extortion. But in a cruel twist of fate, it is his chauffeur's son who is kidnapped in his own son's place-and so Gondo must choose to either pay the huge ransom and lose his empire, or else take resposibility for the boy's life. Filled with 1960s police action, Kurosawa's superb film takes us deep into the insufferable heat and seedy, heroin-addicted underworld of postwar Tokyo. |
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Review:
Review to come. Promise! back to the top
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Extras:
- Stills gallery
- Original poster artwork
- Dolby Digital 4.0
- An essay by Dr Adrian Danks, Head of Cinema Studies, RMIT University, President & Co-curator of the Melbourne Cinemathèque
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